Introduction
I. The Concept of Evil
1. How to Theorize about Evil
Eve Garrard and David McNaughton
2. A Religious Conception of Evil
Steve Clarke
II. Individuals and Evil
3. Is Bullying Evil?
Robin May Schott
4. Narratives of Entitlement
Arne Johan Vetlesen
5. Virtue Ethics, Role Morality, and Perverse Evildoing
Justin Oakley
III. Evil beyond the Individual
6. Evil and Collective Moral Failures
Gideon Calder
7. Surviving Homophobia: Overcoming Evil Environments
Claudia Card
8. Political Evil: Warping the Moral Landscape
Stephen de Wijze
IV. Responses to Evil
9. Evil and the Unforgivable
Luke Russell
10. Evildoing and Moral Enhancement: the Question of Magnitude
Shlomit Harrosh
Biography
Shlomit Harrosh is a research fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought, Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. She also tutors for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She completed her doctoral thesis Evildoing: An Attack on Morality at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on moral and political philosophy, and she is currently working on the ethics of war.
Roger Crisp is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Australian Catholic University. His research focusses on normative ethics, metaethics, and the history of ethics. He is the author of Mill on Utilitarianism (Routledge, 1997), Reasons and the Good (2006), and The Cosmos of Duty (2015). He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (2013), and translator of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (2000).
"Overall, the essays provide profound and troubling reflections on questions that are not only major concerns of our times but also a flourishing area of investigation in moral philosophy." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"With this valuable collection of philosophical essays, Harrosh and Crisp seek to improve understanding of the troubling concept of evil to determine what responses are appropriate to its various manifestations … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." – CHOICE
