The Roots of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roots of Evil write by Ervin Staub. This book was released on 1992-07-31. The Roots of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide.
The Origin of Evil
The Origin of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Evil write by Ellery Queen. This book was released on 2014. The Origin of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dead dog, a green alligator wallet, a burned book and a series of cryptic notes send Ellery Queen on the trail of a murderer. Laurel Hill, daughter of Hollywood jeweller Leander Hill, believes that her father was frightened to death, and asks Ellery Queen to investigate. Someone is still out to get Hill's business partner, Roger Priam, but he's not talking. And it appears that a mysterious and violent incident in the men's past may be at the heart of the matter. When Priam begins to receive a series of less than pleasant 'gifts', master detective Ellery Queen must discern the pattern that connects the clues and the notes, and entrap the criminal.
The Roots of Evil
The Roots of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roots of Evil write by John Kekes. This book was released on 2014-02-15. The Roots of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it."—John Kekes The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793–94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943–44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970s; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.
The Origin of Evil Spirits
The Origin of Evil Spirits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Evil Spirits write by Archie T. Wright. This book was released on 2013-11-26. The Origin of Evil Spirits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we account for the explosion of demonic activity in the New Testament? Archie T. Wright examines the trajectory of the origin of evil spirits in early Jewish literature. His work traces the development of the concept of evil spirits from the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 6) through post-biblical Jewish literature. "I would in fact recommend this book, not because of the answers it gives, but the questions it raises." -- Philip R. Davies in Journal of Semitic Studies 55 (2010) "This work is marked by several strengths. First, Wright shows an impressive command of the primary and secondary literature. Second, this writer appreciates Wright's tendency to express cautious conclusions regarding historical and source-critical matters. These qualities are especially helpful in a work dealing with the reception history of a given text. Third, Wright has an extremely helpful discussion of the identity of the nephilim of Gen. 6:4 (80-83)." -- Mark D. Owens in Faith & Mission 24 (2007), pp. 68-70
The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions
The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions write by P. Koslowski. This book was released on 2001-11-30. The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nine papers from a March 2000 conference in Hanover, Germany explore the views of five major religions on the origin and nature of evil and suffering, and the question of overcoming them. In addition, there are a summary and critique from by a Christian theologian, the concluding discussion, and a summary of conversation between the representatives after the conclusion of the presentation. No subject index is provided. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
