Facing Evil

Facing Evil
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0691020957
ISBN-13 : 9780691020952
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Book Synopsis Facing Evil by : John Kekes

Download or read book Facing Evil written by John Kekes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.


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