The Positive Function of Evil

Tabensky, P.

This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a concern of religious thinkers from the Christian tradition, very little systematic work has been done to explore this idea from the secular point of view.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-06-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230219557

DOI: 10.1057/9780230242265

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 185