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Evil in Joint Action The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin
By Hans Bernhard Schmid
Copyright 2021
362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
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Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Exploring the famous ‘Pear Theft’ episode in St Augustine’s Confessions , it looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers when the event is placed in the context of... Read more
1. A Gratuitous Act
2. The Guise of the Bad
3. Augustinian Absurdity
4. Perfect Hatred
5. Of Pride and Shame
6. From Incident to Institution
Epilogue: Ethical Hate
Biography
Hans Bernhard Schmid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Plural Action: Essays in Philosophy and Social Science and Moralische Integrität: Kritik eines Konstrukts, and the co-editor of From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity: Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory.
