Moral Evil

Index

INDEX absence, 16, 144, 171, 189, 197, 217; perspectivalist view of, 10, 118, 128, 139, 142; and presence, 14, 41, 93, 218; privation view of, 10, 14, 18, 48, 110, 165–66, 167, 197, 217, 218–19. See also privation model and thesis absurdity, 210; Camus on, 7, 151, 183–84, 186 Abu Ghraib scandal, 6 accountability, 57, 70, 98, 166n100; moral, 245, 252n76 Adam and Eve, 166, 168, 173, 177–78, 201, 203n2 aesthetic, 132, 146, 154, 161n38; and ethics, 129, 154; and normative, 129, 130–34, 153, 161n38 After Auschwitz (Rubenstein), 73 agency, 36, 119, 121, 148; and evil, 24, 59, 77; and free will, 77, 169; and grace, 176; and personal responsibility, 70 agentic shift, 212–14, 215 akrasia, 222, 240 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 242–43 Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (Gray), 26 alterity, 26, 155; and other-regard, 153, 235–36 altruism, 15, 18, 49, 103, 154; cosmopolitan , 233; evil and, 17 American Beauty, 161n38 Amin, Idi, 50 Annas, Julia, 234–35 Antichrist, 43–44, 46, 47, 63n61 antisocial behavior, 48–49 antitradition, 121, 137–38 Apocalypse, 43–48 Arendt, Hannah, 36, 186–88; and Augustinianism , 14, 15, 187, 188–89; on 2 7 1 banality of evil, 14, 167, 187; works: Eichmann in Jerusalem, 5, 186–88, 190; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 188 Aristotle, 19, 217–26, 239; Augustine’s common ground with, 11, 16, 18–19, 217, 221, 224, 225, 232–37, 246; on character, 52, 221, 243, 244; and eudaemonia , 217, 220, 233, 237; on evil and wrongdoing, 219–20, 222–23, 238; on friendship, 221, 236, 250n28; on reforming the wicked, 239; on selfawareness , 223, 224, 240; on selfdeception , 221–22; on self-knowledge, 236–37, 239; on virtue, 147, 217–18, 220–21, 223–24, 233–34, 236, 239, 241–42; works: The Nicomachean Ethics, 19, 147, 219–20, 224, 235 atheism, 101, 183; and new atheists, 9, 20n18, 102, 115n83 atonement, 240–41, 243 atrocities, 25, 69, 100, 130, 148, 155, 246 Augustine, Saint, 14–15, 170–80, 219; Arendt and, 14, 15, 187, 188–89; Aristotle ’s common ground with, 11, 16, 18–19, 217, 221, 224, 225, 232–37, 246; on corruption and corruptibility, 15, 32, 56, 57, 180; on evil, 14, 19, 56, 166, 171–73, 178, 189; on finitude, 166, 176, 178, 233; on free will, 172–74, 176, 197; on goodness of God, 158, 200; on grace, 167, 173, 176–78, 179, 189, 197, 201, 222; on human nature, 165, 178, 203n1; on justice, 163n98, 174; on love, 177, 179, 189, 236; on lust and pride, 168, 170, 171, 174, 175, 177, 179, 221–22; and Manicheanism, 55–56, 158, 172–73, 176, 179, 180, 217; on man’s wretchedness, 159, 163n98; on original 2 7 2 I N DE X Augustine, Saint (continued) sin, 166, 170, 180, 203n2, 216, 221; on Pelagianism, 157–58, 217; on redemption, 166, 167, 181, 183, 217; on responsibility, 172–73, 175, 179, 222; on salvation, 177, 178, 179, 183; on selfawareness , 180, 192; on selfknowledge , 237, 239, 244–45; on sin, 57, 177, 178, 222, 243; on suffering, 55, 158, 159, 166, 179; theocentrism of, 110, 150, 158, 159, 169, 176, 179; on will, 166, 170–71, 176–77, 178; works: The City of God, 14, 159, 163n98, 168, 171, 177, 181, 182, 188, 203n2; The Confessions, 14, 170, 172; On Continence, 172–73; Enchridion, 200; On Free Choice of the Will, 173–74, 175, 176, 178; On Rebuke and Grace, 179; On the Trinity, 237 badness, 58, 222; and corruption, 57; and evil, 5, 7, 14; evil as absence of, 10, 128, 139, 142; evil as presence of, 10, 27 banality, 36; of evil, 14, 167, 187, 212 Barth, Karl, 35, 194–96; on nothingness, 59–60, 66n103, 194–95 Baudelaire, Charles, 40–41 Bayle, Pierre, 29–30, 77–78, 79 beauty, 14, 41, 87, 146; perspectivalist view of, 132, 153, 161n38 Beloved (Morrison), 152 Benigni, Roberto, 117, 120 Bennett, Philip, 100 Berger, Peter, 160n9 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 13, 124 The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), 154 blameworthiness, 23, 118, 153, 233 blindness, 209; evil as, 166 Böckle, Franz, 252n69 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 214, 249n18 born-again experience, 252n74 Boyer, Paul, 11, 45 brain, 49, 51, 57, 64nn81–82; abnormalities , 53, 65nn94–95; of psychopath, 9, 21n20, 54nn94–95, 237 Brown, Robert MacAfee, 193 Browning, Christopher R., 36 Buddhism, 74; Zen, 141–45, 155 Burrell, David, 209, 210–11 Bush, George W...