Atrocity Paradigm A Theory of Evil

Name: Atrocity Paradigm A Theory of Evil
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ISBN: 9780195181265

ISBN-10: 0195181263

ISBN-13: 9780195181265

Edition: 2005

Authors: Claudia Card

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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 impossible or that makes a death indecent. The other component is culpable wrongdoing. Atrocities, such as genocides, slavery, war rape, torture, and severe child abuse, are Card's paradigms…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.91" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232




Introduction : the atrocity paradigm



Nietzsche's denial of evil



Utilitarian attack and stoic withdrawal : two extremes



Kant's theory of radical evil



Prioritizing evils over unjust inequalities



Rape in war



Terrorism in the home



The moral powers of victims



The moral burdens and obligations of perpetrators



Gray zones : diabolical evil revisited