Why Evil Exists

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Compact discs.
36 lectures - 30 minutes per lecture.
"Course no. 6810."
Lecture 1. The nature and origins of evil -- Lecture 2. Enuma elish : evil as cosmic battle -- Lecture 3. Greece : tragedy and The Peloponnesian War -- Lecture 4. Greek philosophy : human evil and malice -- Lecture 5. The Hebrew Bible : human rivalry with God -- Lecture 6. The Hebrew Bible : wisdom and the fear of God -- Lecture 7. Christian scripture : apocalypse and original sin -- Lecture 8. The inevitability of evil : Irenaeus -- Lecture 9. Creation, evil, and the fall : Augustine -- Lecture 10. Rabbinic Judaism : the evil impulse -- Lecture 11. Islam : Iblis the failed, once-glorious being -- Lecture 12. On self-deception in evil : scholasticism -- Lecture 13. Dante : Hell and the abandonment of hope -- Lecture 14. The Reformation : the power of evil within -- Lecture 15. Dark politics : Machiavelli on how to be bad -- Lecture 16. Hobbes : evil as a social construct -- Lecture 17. Montaigne and Pascal : evil and the self -- Lecture 18. Milton : epic evil -- Lecture 19. The Enlightenment and its discontents -- Lecture 20. Kant : evil at the root of human agency -- Lecture 21. Hegel : the slaughter block of history -- Lecture 22. Marx : materialism and evil -- Lecture 23. The American north and south : holy war -- Lecture 24. Nietzsche : considering the language of evil -- Lecture 25. Dostoevsky : the demonic in modernity -- Lecture 26. Conrad : incomprehensible terror -- Lecture 27. Freud : the death drive and the inexplicable -- Lecture 28. Camus : the challenge to take evil seriously -- Lecture 29. Post-WWII Protestant theology on evil -- Lecture 30. Post-WWII Roman Catholic theology on evil -- Lecture 31. Post-WWII Jewish thought on evil -- Lecture 32. Arendt : the banality of evil -- Lecture 33. Life in truth : 20th-century poets on evil -- Lecture 34. Science and the empirical study of evil -- Lecture 35. The "unnaming" of evil -- Lecture 36. Where can hope be found?
Lecturer: Professor Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia.
Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil.

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