Download or read book Promoting and Producing Evil written by Nancy Billias and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive.
Download or read book The Social Psychology of Good and Evil written by Arthur G. Miller and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely, accessible reference and text addresses some of the most fundamental questions about human behavior, such as what causes racism and prejudice and why good people do bad things. Leading authorities present state-of-the-science theoretical and empirical work. Essential themes include the complex interaction of individual, societal, and situational factors underpinning good or evil behavior; the role of moral emotions, unconscious bias, and the self-concept; issues of responsibility and motivation; and how technology and globalization have enabled newer forms of threat and harm. New to This Edition *Many new authors; extensively revised with the latest theory and research. *Section on group perspectives, with chapters on bystanders to emergencies, remembering historical victimization, organizational dynamics, and globalization and terrorism. *Chapters on free will, conscious versus unconscious processes, media violence, dehumanization, genocide, and sexual violence. *Chapters on false moral superiority, compassionate goals in relationships, and moral emotions in incarcerated offenders.
Download or read book Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media written by Nizar Zouidi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.
Download or read book The Social Psychology of Good and Evil Second Edition written by Arthur G. Miller and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This timely, accessible reference and text addresses some of the most fundamental questions about human behavior, such as what causes racism and prejudice and why good people do bad things. Leading authorities present state-of-the-science theoretical and empirical work. Essential themes include the complex interaction of individual, societal, and situational factors underpinning good or evil behavior; the role of moral emotions, unconscious bias, and the self-concept; issues of responsibility and motivation; and how technology and globalization have enabled newer forms of threat and harm. Key Words/Subject Areas: aggression, altruism, antisocial, evil, free will, good, guilt, heroism, human behavior, morality, prejudice, prosocial, racism, shame, social psychology, stereotyping, terrorism, values, violence Audience: Students and researchers in social psychology; also of interest to sociologists. "--
Download or read book Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science written by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."
Download or read book God s Own Ethics written by Mark C. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every version of the argument from evil requires a premise concerning God's motivation - about the actions that God is motivated to perform or the states of affairs that God is motivated to bring about. The typical source of this premise is a conviction that God is, obviously, morally perfect, where God's moral perfection consists in God's being motivated to act in accordance with the norms of morality by which both we and God are governed. The aim of God's Own Ethics is to challenge this understanding by giving arguments against this view of God as morally perfect and by offering an alternative account of what God's own ethics is like. According to this alternative account, God is in no way required to promote the well-being of sentient creatures, though God may rationally do so. Any norms of conduct that favor the promotion of creaturely well-being that govern God's conduct are norms that are contingently self-imposed by God. This revised understanding of divine ethics should lead us to revise sharply downward our assessment of the force of the argument from evil while leaving intact our conception of God as an absolutely perfect being, supremely worthy of worship.
Download or read book Bishop Sanderson s lectures on conscience and human law ed in an Engl tr by C Wordsworth written by Robert Sanderson (bp. of Lincoln.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facing Evil written by John Kekes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.
Download or read book Bishop Sanderson s Lectures on Conscience and Human Law written by Robert Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book God s Charge Warning To Americans written by Nworah Ifeanyi Anakwenze and published by Anti-CRIME Publishers International. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful God-inspired special e-book, which is dedicated to the welfare of all Americans and to the fight against crime/evil/social ills in America, contains powerful God-inspired special message to all Americans, including American men and women, old and young. The powerful God-inspired special e-book also contains many powerful words of wisdom/admonitions for all Americans, including powerful words of wisdom/admonitions for American political leaders/political office holders, and for American statesmen/elders, and for American religious leaders/religious faithful, and for American workers, and for Americans who are jobless or unemployed, and for American professionals, and for American businessmen and women, and for American youths, and for American parents, and for American children, and for Americans who are rich/wealthy, and for Americans who are facing hardships/challenging problems, and for Americans who engage in criminal/evil acts. Americans from all walks of life, irrespective of religious or political beliefs, will find this powerful God-inspired special e-book very useful for getting great inspiration towards successful/prosperous/fulfilled living, and towards making great/outstanding achievements in life, and towards avoiding falling into crime/evil which leads to disgrace/regrets/destruction.
Download or read book Evil in Joint Action written by Hans Bernhard Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 social thought. With attention to Augustine’s lengthy reflections on a seemingly marginal episode, the author contends that it is possible to discern the elements of a convincing account of intentional evil action, the Pear Theft representing a case of joint radical improvisation that lacks collective deliberation. As such, a new perspective emerges on familiar and more intuitive forms of evil in joint action that involve group identification and institutional action. Evil in Joint Action will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy with interests in ethics, collective action and concepts of evil.
Download or read book Territories of Evil written by Nancy Billias and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil is not only an abstract concept to be analyzed intellectually, but a concrete reality that we all experience and wrestle with on an ongoing basis. To truly understand evil we must always approach it from both angles: the intellective and the phenomenological. This same assertion resounds through each of the papers in this volume, in which an interdisciplinary and international group (including nurses, psychologists, philosophers, professors of literature, history, computer studies, and all sorts of social science) presented papers on cannibalism, the Holocaust, terrorism, physical and emotional abuse, virtual and actual violence, and depravity in a variety of media, from film to literature to animé to the Internet. Conference participants discussed villains and victims, dictators and anti-heroes, from 921 AD to the present, and considered the future of evil from a number of theoretical perspectives. Personal encounters with evil were described and analyzed, from interviews with political leaders to the problems of locating and destroying land mines in previous war zones. The theme of responsibility and thinking for the future is very much at the heart of these papers: how to approach evil as a question to be explored, critiqued, interrogated, reflected upon, owned. The authors urge an attitude of openness to new interpretations, new perspectives, new understanding. This may not be a comfortable process; it may in fact be quite disturbing. But ultimately, it may be the only way forward towards a truly ethical response. The papers in this collection provide a wealth of food for thought on this most important question.
Download or read book After Evil written by Robert Meister and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.
Download or read book Studies in the Police Power of the National Government written by Robert Eugene Cushman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Demons and Evil Spirits to Cancer Genes written by Patrick J. Fitzgerald and published by American Registry of Pathology. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
