| Description |
xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-343) and index. |
| Contents |
FIRE FROM HEAVEN -- God's Advocates: Leibniz and Pope -- Newton of the Mind: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Divided Wisdom: Immanuel Kant -- Real and Rational: Hegel and Marx -- In Conclusion -- CONDEMNING THE ARCHITECT -- Raw Material: Bayle's Dictionary -- Voltaire's Destinies -- The Impotence of Reason: David Hume -- End of the Tunnel: The Marquis de Sade -- Schopenhauer: The World as Tribunal -- ENDS OF AN ILLUSION -- Eternal Choices: Nietzsche on Redemption -- On Consolation: Freud vs. Providence -- HOMELESS -- Earthquakes: Why Lisbon? -- Mass Murders: Why Auschwitz? -- Losses: Ending Modern Theodicies -- Intentions: Meaning and Malice -- Terror: After September 11 -- Remains: Camus, Arendt, Critical Theory, Rawls -- Origins: Sufficient Reason. |
| Subject |
Good and evil -- History.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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| ISBN |
0691096082 cloth alkaline paper |
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