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The Positive Function of Evil
Author: Pedro Alexis Tabensky
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ReviewAn unusual and stimulating collection. The presence of evil in our world, so often discussed from a religious viewpoint, is here tackled from a largely secular perspective. The papers open up a fascinating array of ethical and psychological questions about the human moral predicament. - John Cottingham * * It is perhaps no surprise that the country which gave the world the Truth and Reconciliation Commission should also play host to creative and unorthodox work in moral philosophy. Welcome evidence of the fact comes in the shape of this stimulating volume of essays, which explore various aspects of the question whether human life is made better by the presence in it of evil.- Edward Harcourt, University of Oxford, UK About the AuthorPEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY lectures in philosophy at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of Happiness Personhood, Community, Purpose (2003) and of several publications in peer reviewed journals. Tabensky is also the editor of Judging and Understanding Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation (2006). He is currently working on two monographs one on the issues explored in the present collection and another defending a new position in the free will debate, which, alluding to Peter Strawsons distinction between optimism and pessimism, he terms radical optimism.
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ReviewAn unusual and stimulating collection. The presence of evil in our world, so often discussed from a religious viewpoint, is here tackled from a largely secular perspective. The papers open up a fascinating array of ethical and psychological questions about the human moral predicament. - John Cottingham * * It is perhaps no surprise that the country which gave the world the Truth and Reconciliation Commission should also play host to creative and unorthodox work in moral philosophy. Welcome evidence of the fact comes in the shape of this stimulating volume of essays, which explore various aspects of the question whether human life is made better by the presence in it of evil.- Edward Harcourt, University of Oxford, UK About the AuthorPEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY lectures in philosophy at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of Happiness Personhood, Community, Purpose (2003) and of several publications in peer reviewed journals. Tabensky is also the editor of Judging and Understanding Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation (2006). He is currently working on two monographs one on the issues explored in the present collection and another defending a new position in the free will debate, which, alluding to Peter Strawsons distinction between optimism and pessimism, he terms radical optimism.
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