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Radical evil
a philosophical interrogation
By Bernstein, Richard J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-74562-953-7
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Polity, 2002.
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Reviewed on October 1, 2002
About large solutions to the issue of evil, Bernstein is pessimistic: there can't be a general theory of evil, and we can't finally understand evil. There can be no happy ending to human history. But he is cautiously optimistic about overcoming particular evils. He brilliantly untangles the strings with which Kant tied himself in knots and looks at Hegel's attempts to disentangle them. But, he says, "we can no longer accept Hegel's dialectical account of good and evil." There is no final reconciliatio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
