The discussion of the problem of evil
has been a contentious one in the history
of philosophy and theology. We have chosen
and present here some of the more popular
books dealing with this issue. If you are
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Evil threatens human reason, for it
challenges our hope that the world makes
sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans,
the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil.
Today we view evil as a matter of human
cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme
incarnation. Examining our understanding
of evil from the Inquisition to
contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman
explores who we have become in the three
centuries that separate us from the early
Enlightenment. In the process, she
rewrites the history of modern thought and
points philosophy back to the questions
that originally animated it.