New demons: rethinking power and evil today
In: Cultural Memory in the Present
In: Cultural Memory in the Past
In: Cultural memory in the present
As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls ""the Dostoevsky paradigm"": the dualistic vision of
In: Cultural Memory in the Present
In: Cultural Memory in the Past
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