Download or read book Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition written by Rae Gavin Rae and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil - as a conceptual problem - came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.