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Beyond ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
Recently, I finished reading a novel, The Far Pavilions, by M.M. Kaye, set in 19th century India. Its hero is a young British officer with a dual identity. He’s been raised as an Indian child after his English parents died … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century India, a denatured life, a life denatured, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", absolutism vs. relativism, adaptive skills, authenticity and immorality, authenticity and liberation, authenticity and modernity, authenticity and postmodernism, awareness of evil, British officer in India, Brooklyn College Philosophy Department, career troubles, children of mixed acculturation, curing evil, double identities, evil and denial, evil and excuses, evil and personal responsibility, evil and self-promotion, evil as cure for failure, exorcism vs voluntary wickedness, exorcist vs voluntary evil, expectations of others, exposing a villain, exposing wickedness, finding one’s path in life, freedom from moral constraints, Friedrich Nietzsche, giving evil free rein, guilt and innocence, heroes and villains, hopeless condemnations, irrelevant moralizing, judgment re good and evil, judgment vs. judgmentalism, literary evil vs real evil, losers and winners, losing grip on one’s story, losing one's way in life, malevolence in a student, manipulative moralizing, moral absolutism and moral relativism, moral accuracy, moral condemnation and bullying, moral condemnation and childhood, moral decision, moral judgment, moral judgment and hypocrisy, neutrality about evil, Nietzsche and authenticity, Nietzsche and Freud, Nietzsche and social constraints, Nietzsche Freud and Heidegger, Nietzsche in adolescence, Nietzsche philosophizing beyond good and evil, Nietzsche philosophizing outside moral constraints, Nietzsche playing with evil, Nietzsche's adolescence, Nietzsche’s dark theology, Nietzsche’s intellectual influence, ordinary failure, ordinary success, philosophy in higher ed, philosophy majors, physical vs psychological threat, pulling moral rank, rationalizing wickedness, real evil, reversing moral categories, romantic troubles, social know-how, social skills and flexibility, succeeding at evil, Sue Prideaux's I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, the choice of evil, The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye, the way of evil, unfair accusations, you don’t win every round
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Understanding Evil
The French say, to understand all is to forgive all – but, where evil is concerned, forgiving all would be a bad idea. I have written a whole book on the topic, called (accurately enough) A Good Look at Evil. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, antinomian utopians, avoiding victimization, charisma of the wicked, Christianity and sin, classifying evil, conditions for evil, coping with evil, criteria for evil, dangerous individuals, dealing with evil, deceived by bad guys, defining evil as the absence of good, defining evil psychologically, deliberate evil, discerning the presence of wickedness, empathy with evil, Evil, evil and personal responsibility, evil and the vulnerable, evil as a force, evil as contagious, evil’s disguises, evil’s external conditions, evil’s influence, evil’s ingenious disguises, evil’s reductionist explanations, evil’s religious disguises, fashionable misunderstandings, fear of evil, inherent nature of evil, inherent power of wickedness, Judaism and sin, knowing right from wrong, knowing when not to forgive, malign influence, masquerading as religious, moral danger, nature vs nurture, overcoming adversity, overeducated misunderstandings, philosophical concept of evil, philosophy’s treatment of evil, power of the corrupt to corrupt, profaning what is sacred, recognizing evil, reductionist explanations of evil, religious pretense and wickedness, resisting external conditions for evil, seeing the wolf before he sees you, strategies of evil, the habit doesn’t make the monk, the inner life of the wicked, the spell of evil, to understand is to forgive, underprivilege and evil, victimized by evil, villains in novels, what is evil
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