Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness - Essays in Honor of Claudia Card

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Veltman is professor of philosophy at James Madison University, USA Kathryn J. Norlock is Professor of Philosophy and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University. She is the author of Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective (2009) and co-editor of Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness (2009). Klappentext Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card is a collection of new philosophical essays written in tribute to Claudia Card, exploring her leading theory of evil and other theories of evil. The collection brings together an international cohort of distinguished moral and political philosophers who mediate with Card upon an array of twentieth-century atrocities and on the nature of evil actions, persons and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Prevalence of Evil Chapter 3 Epistemic Aspects of Evil: The Three Monkeys Meet The Atrocity Paradigm Chapter 4 Atrocity, Harm and Resistance: A Situated Understanding of Genocidal Rape Chapter 5 War Rape and the Political Concept of Evil Chapter 6 When to Intervene: Atrocity, Inequality, and Oppression Chapter 7 Evil and Forgiveness: The Possibility of Moral Redemption Chapter 8 Moral Powers and Forgivable Evils Chapter 9 Self-inflicted Evils and Self-forgiveness Chapter 10 Evil, Atrocity and Harm Chapter 11 Reframing Perspectives on Evil: Accountability, Moral Responsibility and Collective Judgment Chapter 12 Afterword

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• Authors: Andrea (EDT)/ Norlock Veltman
• Assisted by: Kathryn J. Norlock (Editor), Norlock Kathryn J. (Editor), Andrea Veltman (Editor), Veltman Andrea (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2009
• EAN: 9780739136508
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3650-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy