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The Atrocity Paradigm

Paperback • 2005 • English

The Atrocity Paradigm

By Claudia Card

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About the book

What distinguishes evils from ordinary wrongs? Is hatred a necessarily evil? Are some evils unforgivable? Are there evils we should tolerate? What can make evils hard to recognize? Are evils inevitable? How can we best respond to and live with evils? Claudia Card offers a secular theory of evil that responds to these questions and more. Evils, according to her theory, have two fundamental components. One component is reasonably foreseeable intolerable harm - harm that makes a life indecent and i...Show more

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9780195181265

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Atrocity Paradigm

Format

Paperback

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