Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : 9781474445351
ISBN-13 : 1474445357
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Book Synopsis Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition by : Rae Gavin Rae

Download or read book Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition written by Rae Gavin Rae and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil - as a conceptual problem - came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.


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