Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2019)
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Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

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BJ1401.R34 2019

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9781474445344   1474445330   1474445349   9781474445320

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10.1515/9781474445344
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Gavin Rae
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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