Remembering the Victims

2019 ◽  
pp. 286-318
Author(s):  
Gavin Rae
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Conception ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Political Realm

This chapter engages with Claudia Card claim that we can only ever understand evil by focusing on its victims to insist that evils are reasonably foreseeable intolerable harms produced by inexcusable wrongs. From this, the chapter identifies that her analysis works on two distinct, but related, levels: Conceptually speaking, Card maintains that good and evil are distinct, but evil is distinguished from lesser wrongs, and all are defined by degrees. Experientially speaking, she recognises that agents often find themselves in situations that require actions that are not clearly good or evil. She develops this through Primo Levi’s notion of ‘grey zones,’ which entail the creation of extremely stressful spaces or relationships wherein victims become perpetrators of evil against other victims. This brings her analysis into the socio-political realm, and so is reminiscence of Arendt’s approach, while, by linking grey zones to diabolical evil, she departs from Kant’s rejection of the latter form of evil: for Card, there is an absolute, diabolical form of evil entailing evil done for its own sake. In positing this notion, she returns us to an absolute conception of evil that had long been downplayed by secular theories of evil.

Creation, the Fall, and the Regime of the Passions

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-188
Author(s):  
Gerard O'Daly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
The Body ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Universe

The chapter discusses Augustine’s presentation in Books 11–14 of the origins of the two cities, heavenly and earthly. The focus is on the creation of the universe, the angels and the rebellion of some of them, and Adam, Eve, and the Fall. Specific themes include: Genesis exegesis; the elaboration of the history theme, with good and bad angels as ‘prologues’ to the two historical human cities; good and evil in the universe; angelic rebels and the nature of the will; death and resurrection; Platonist and Christian views on the body; Pauline flesh and spirit; emotions and passions; sexual desire in paradise and since the Fall; love of self and love of God, and the application of this contrast to the two cities.

Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception.

1993 ◽  
Vol 43 (170) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Michael McGhee ◽  
Raimond Gaita
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Conception ◽  
Good And Evil

Cherry Pie Wrapped in Barbed Wire: Fire Walk With Me as a Horror Movie

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-74
Author(s):  
Lindsay Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Gain Control ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Genre Conventions ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Town

This chapter discusses Twin Peaks and its engagement with and subversion of genre conventions. It discloses how the Twin Peaks television series is viewed as a work of postmodernism and a pastiche of several genres that provide references to film noir, which gives the series a cinematic feel. It also points out that the Twin Peaks series parodied television genre conventions, while David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is less interested in parody and pastiche and presents a more personal and subjective story. The chapter examines how Fire Walk With Me reveals more of the strange and unearthly realm that exists side-by-side with the town where larger forces of good and evil fight to gain control of Laura's soul. It describes the strong sense of the supernatural in Fire Walk With Me; an element that situates the film in the horror genre through the creation of mythical and mystical spaces.

Babylonian and Hebrew Demonology with reference to the supposed borrowing of Persian Dualism in Judaism and Christianity

1934 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
S. Langdon
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Independent Existence

Dualism is a term introduced into modern theology by the Englishman, Thomas Hyde, in 1700, and was first used to describe sthe fundamental principle of Persian Zoroastrism, namely the independent existence of good and evil. Ormazd the good god and Ahriman the evil god in the theology of the Persians represent an absolute dualism. For them Ahriman, corresponding to Satan of Judaism and Christianity, is entirely independent of the creator god. Good and evil, God and the Devil, are primeval supreme powers. Now I wish to trace the history of Satan or the Devil in Christianity back through Judaism, Hebrew, and Babylonian religion to its origin among the Sumerians. I shall endeavour to prove this Persian dualism, which admits that God did not create the Devil, to be totally foreign to Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hebrew speculation; and I shall then briefly examine the evidence on which modern scholars admit dualism to have been held by the Jews of the Apocalyptic period and by early Christianity as set forth in the New Testament. It is my conviction that Persian religion never had any influence upon Judaism or early Christianity. Satan, the Devil (diabolus), is traceable directly to Babylonian theology; there he is the creation of the gods.

scholarly journals Raimond Gaita e a compreensão da moralidade a partir do reconhecimento da realidade do outro

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Susie Kovalczyk dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Conception ◽  
De Se ◽  
Good And Evil

Explora-se no presente artigo a função que o reconhecimento do outro desempenha para a moralidade no âmbito da obra Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, de Raimond Gaita, a partir da centralidade da noção de remorso, entendido como a recordação do significado moral para o agente daquilo que ele fez. Serão resgatados os exemplos partir dos quais Gaita pretende enfatizar o peso da moralidade e o significado de se fazer o mal moralmente para alguém. Não se pode compreender, segundo o filósofo, uma situação como moralmente problemática se não for inteligível que quem a realizou deveria sentir um remorso genuíno diante constatação do mal gerado a partir de suas ações.

Nietzsche

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-240
Author(s):  
Guy Elgat
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Genealogy Of Morals

In this chapter, a detailed reconstruction of Friedrich Nietzsche’s genealogy of guilt is provided. The following notions are examined: internalization of cruelty, the ethics of custom, the debtor-creditor relationship, the creation of the “sovereign individual,” free will, and the notion of Christian guilt. One of the main claims made is that Nietzsche’s genealogy can be seen to go deeper than Rée’s in that it provides us with a genealogy of social and mental structures that Rée’s genealogy presupposes. On the other hand, as the chapter argues, at various crucial junctions, Nietzsche can be read as helping himself to a Rée-ian form of explanation. Before turning to Nietzsche’s genealogy of guilt in his On the Genealogy of Morals and other writings, the chapter examines his earlier critique of Schopenhauer in Human, All Too Human and his critique of the idea of causa sui in Beyond Good and Evil.

scholarly journals WOJNA UKRAIŃSKO-POLSKO-ROSYJSKA 1920 ROKU W INTERPRETACJI JEJ UCZESTNIKÓW ORAZ POLSKI KIERUNEK PROPAGANDY BOLSZEWICKIEJ (NA PRZYKŁADZIE BOLSZEWICKICH ULOTEK KWIETNIA – WRZEŚNIA 1920)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. M. Nadtoka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Cognitive Choice ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Good And Evil

In this publication the author analyzes the interpretations of the events of the Ukrainian- Polish-Russian war in 1920 by its participants. The Polish direction of Russian-Bolshevik propaganda in this war is also being explored. Sources of the study – a collection of Ukrainian agitation editions and Russian-Bolshevik leaflets published in Polish. These editions are stored in the Vernadsky National Libraryʼs Department of Old Books (Viddil starodrukiv Nacionalnoji biblioteky imeni V. Vernadsʼkoho). The Bolshevik propaganda involved the creation of a new social consciousness in which the world of good and evil changed places, and the policy of Russian-Bolshevik expansion was presented as the liberation of peoples. The propaganda methods used by Soviet Russia involved the manipulation of consciousness not only through the traditional means of misinformation, inciting controversy, destroying the enemy's reputation, but also special techniques, which are defined as the methods of the overturned pyramid, absolute clarity, and the formation of controlled cognitive choice. Keywords: Ukrainian-Polish-Russian war, UNR Army, Polish Commonwealth Army, Red Army, Russian-Bolshevik propaganda, propaganda methods, manipulation of consciousness.

An Utterly Transcendent God and His Logos

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren R. Niehoff
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Negative Theology ◽  
Jewish Scriptures ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Time ◽  
Good And Evil

This chapter details how, in the Allegorical Commentary, Philo develops a theology that significantly differs from his position in the Exposition, where he elevates the creation to a Jewish dogma. At the beginning of his career he intensively engaged the discourses of his hometown Alexandria and adopted a typical orientation toward Platonism and Pythagoreanism with their characteristic emphasis on transcendence. He developed these ideas further than his predecessors and formulated for the first time a negative theology that posits an unknowable God beyond good and evil. Philo also interprets the Jewish Scriptures creatively and develops a theory of the Logos as an intermediary figure that permits human beings to approach the divine realm without compromising God. Many of Philo's ideas subsequently resurface in Gnostic and Platonic authors, who may have been inspired by him, as many of them hailed from Alexandria.

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