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Pt. 1. Historical perspectives on evil. Two thousand years and no new God / Gil Bailie -- Identifying good and evil / Nicholas Wolsterstorff -- Kant and radical evil / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Uprooting evil and the building of ethical communities / Sharon Anderson-Gold -- The realty of radical evil / Jeffrey B. Russell -- Roads to hell / Susan Neiman -- pt. 2. Confronting evil in our divided world: on genocide, self-destruction, and war. The banality of evil: failing to think / Hannah Arendt -- Ordinary people and extraordinary vices / Tzvetan Todorov -- Are wars inevitable? / Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud -- From relative to absolute evil / Svetozar Stojanović -- Killing in Vietnam: what have we done to our soldiers? / Dave Grossman -- Thou shalt not kill / Hermann Hess -- pt. 3. Facing the darkness within: on our spiritual crisis. Searching for self-knowledge and divine wholeness / Carl Gustav Jung -- Love and cruelty: a blue spot in the middle of the hurricane / Philip Paul Hallie -- Goodness at the heart of being / Michael Lerner -- We are prodigals in a distant land: an essay on Thomas Merton / John P. Collins -- Recovering paradise: Thomas Merton on the self and problem of evil / Thomas Del Prete -- Exposing the deceitful heart: a monk's public "inner work" / Jonathan Montaldo -- pt. 4. Portrayals of evil in art. Lamentations and losses: from New York to Kabul / Daniel Berrigan -- Evil as mystery: primal speech and contemporary poetry / Michael True -- The trial of man and the trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor / Predrag Cicovacki -- The resurrection of hell / Leo Tolstoy -- The Gulag Archipelago (a fragment) / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -- Helen's exile / Albert Camus. |
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