Why Evil Exists

Why do humans do evil? Is evil a spiritual or a cosmic problem? Why, in the end, does evil exist? Discover the answer to these and other provocative questions in <strong>Why Evil Exists</strong>.

Topics Covered:

• By This Professor
• 01: The Nature and Origins of Evil
• 02: "Enuma Elish"—Evil as Cosmic Battle
• 03: Greece—Tragedy and "The Peloponnesian War"
• 04: Greek Philosophy—Human Evil and Malice
• 05: The Hebrew Bible—Human Rivalry with God
• 06: The Hebrew Bible—Wisdom and the Fear of God
• 07: Christian Scripture—Apocalypse and Original Sin
• 08: The Inevitability of Evil—Irenaeus
• 09: Creation, Evil, and the Fall—Augustine
• 10: Rabbinic Judaism—The Evil Impulse
• 11: Islam—Iblis the Failed, Once-Glorious Being
• 12: On Self-Deception in Evil—Scholasticism
• 13: Dante—Hell and the Abandonment of Hope
• 14: The Reformation—The Power of Evil Within
• 15: Dark Politics—Machiavelli on How to Be Bad
• 16: Hobbes—Evil as a Social Construct
• 17: Montaigne and Pascal—Evil and the Self
• 18: Milton—Epic Evil
• 19: The Enlightenment and Its Discontents
• 20: Kant—Evil at the Root of Human Agency
• 21: Hegel—The Slaughter Block of History
• 22: Marx—Materialism and Evil
• 23: The American North and South—Holy War
• 24: Nietzsche—Considering the Language of Evil
• 25: Dostoevsky—The Demonic in Modernity
• 26: Conrad—Incomprehensible Terror
• 27: Freud—The Death Drive and the Inexplicable
• 28: Camus—The Challenge to Take Evil Seriously
• 29: Post-WWII Protestant Theology on Evil
• 30: Post-WWII Roman Catholic Theology on Evil
• 31: Post-WWII Jewish Thought on Evil
• 32: Arendt—The Banality of Evil
• 33: Life in Truth—20th-Century Poets on Evil
• 34: Science and the Empirical Study of Evil
• 35: The "Unnaming" of Evil