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Taught by Professor Charles Mathewes | 34 min | Categories: Philosophy & Religion
Three challenging perspectives: Explore Tillich's conception of the demonic as human “possession” by dimensions of reality beyond the personal self; Barth's vision of Das Nichtige (“the nothing”), a force opposing creation, to which God says “no”; and Niebuhr's “diagnosis” of sin as rooted in the desire to escape our condition as both matter and spirit.
36 Lectures
1
The Nature and Origins of Evil
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of 34 min
2
“Enuma Elish"—Evil as Cosmic Battle
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of 30 min
3
Greece—Tragedy and “The Peloponnesian War”
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of 32 min
4
Greek Philosophy—Human Evil and Malice
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of 32 min
5
The Hebrew Bible—Human Rivalry with God
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of 31 min
6
The Hebrew Bible—Wisdom and the Fear of God
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of 33 min
7
Christian Scripture—Apocalypse and Original Sin
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of 33 min
8
The Inevitability of Evil—Irenaeus
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of 30 min
9
Creation, Evil, and the Fall—Augustine
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of 34 min
10
Rabbinic Judaism—The Evil Impulse
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of 27 min
11
Islam—Iblis the Failed, Once-Glorious Being
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of 30 min
12
On Self-Deception in Evil—Scholasticism
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of 34 min
13
Dante—Hell and the Abandonment of Hope
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of 35 min
14
The Reformation—The Power of Evil Within
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of 32 min
15
Dark Politics—Machiavelli on How to Be Bad
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of 29 min
16
Hobbes—Evil as a Social Construct
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of 32 min
17
Montaigne and Pascal—Evil and the Self
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of 32 min
18
Milton—Epic Evil
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of 31 min
19
The Enlightenment and Its Discontents
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of 33 min
20
Kant—Evil at the Root of Human Agency
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of 32 min
21
Hegel—The Slaughter Block of History
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of 34 min
22
Marx—Materialism and Evil
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of 32 min
23
The American North and South—Holy War
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of 33 min
24
Nietzsche—Considering the Language of Evil
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of 35 min
25
Dostoevsky—The Demonic in Modernity
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of 32 min
26
Conrad—Incomprehensible Terror
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of 31 min
27
Freud—The Death Drive and the Inexplicable
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of 33 min
28
Camus—The Challenge to Take Evil Seriously
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of 31 min
29
Post-WWII Protestant Theology on Evil
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of 34 min
30
Post-WWII Roman Catholic Theology on Evil
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of 32 min
31
Post-WWII Jewish Thought on Evil
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of 30 min
32
Arendt—The Banality of Evil
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of 34 min
33
Life in Truth—20th-Century Poets on Evil
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of 31 min
34
Science and the Empirical Study of Evil
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of 28 min
35
The “Unnaming” of Evil
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of 32 min
36
Where Can Hope Be Found?
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of 31 min
