EvilPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0024
J. Geddes
{"title":"The Banality of Evil","authors":"J. Geddes","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0024","url":null,"abstract":"In her description of Eichmann as an exemplar of the banality of evil, Hannah Arendt was describing a new kind of perpetrator—not new in the sense of being the first of his kind but new to our usual taxonomy of evildoers. Arendt writes, “Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth.” Into our catalogue of violent sociopaths, sadistic murderers, evil geniuses, and subhuman fiends, we now had to insert something that was less extreme, less recognizable as evil, and thus, perhaps, more disturbing: the bureaucrat who murders without any recognizable evil intentions or feelings of hatred.","PeriodicalId":318625,"journal":{"name":"Evil","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121749229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvilPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1017/chol9780521434928.031
Silvia de Toffoli
{"title":"Leopardi","authors":"Silvia de Toffoli","doi":"10.1017/chol9780521434928.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521434928.031","url":null,"abstract":"Giacomo Leopardi, a major Italian poet of the nineteenth century, was also an expert in evil to whom Schopenhauer referred as a “spiritual brother.” Leopardi wrote: “Everything is evil. That is to say, everything that is, is evil; that each thing exists is an evil; each thing exists only for an evil end; existence is an evil.” These and other thoughts are collected in the Zibaldone, a massive collage of heterogeneous writings published posthumously. Leopardi’s pessimism assumes a polished form in his literary writings, such as Dialogue between Nature and an Islander (1824)—an invective against nature and the suffering of creatures within it. In his last lyric, Broom, or the flower of the desert (1836), Leopardi points to the redeeming power of poetry and to human solidarity as placing at least temporary limits on the scope of evil.","PeriodicalId":318625,"journal":{"name":"Evil","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131787172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvilPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0023
Christy Mag Uidhir
{"title":"Cinematic Evil","authors":"Christy Mag Uidhir","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934, Hollywood films were infamous for featuring violence, sexuality, profanity, drug use, and all manner of moral turpitude. Despite this, it wasn’t until the middle of the century that what might be called “pure” or “intrinsic” evil became a prominent theme in American film. In this chapter, I investigate the varieties of evil on display in American cinema and conclude that perhaps the relatively late appearance of “pure” evil depicted cinematically may have had to do with the very sorts of very real evils occurring in the very actual world in the middle of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":318625,"journal":{"name":"Evil","volume":"359 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122761272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvilPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0002
A. Chignell
{"title":"Evil, Unintelligibility, Radicality","authors":"A. Chignell","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199915453.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter articulates two concerns that Karl Jaspers raised (with Hannah Arendt) about the common practice of viewing moral evil as unintelligible. The first is that this involves exoticizing the act and/or perpetrator in such a way that moral condemnation becomes difficult. The second is that it can lead us to treat the perpetrator, place, or victim as tainted or stained by a force whose motives we cannot grasp; this in turn can lead to magical thinking about evil as somehow contagious or contaminating. After distinguishing some of the main categories of evil discussed in the western tradition, I examine ways in which moral evil, in particular, has been characterized as unintelligible, and try to discern which of them raises these Jaspersian concerns. I argue that there are at least two conceptions of “radical evil”—not the Kantian one, but the ones articulated by Hannah Arendt—that do so.","PeriodicalId":318625,"journal":{"name":"Evil","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123216117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvilPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0006
M. Halteman
{"title":"Meat and Evil","authors":"M. Halteman","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In a world where meat is often a token of comfort, health, hospitality, and abundance, one can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the conjunction “meat and evil.” From another perspective, the problem is obvious: meat—the flesh of slaughtered animals taken for food—is the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature, violent, and often gratuitous. The truth is that meat has a checkered history in the west. From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production today, meat is well-marbled with evil and its minions: sin, violence, injustice, destruction, suffering, and death. My aim is to consider meat’s fitness for a place in the Western history of evil by reflecting on its outsized roles at the bookends of this narrative: meat’s primeval history in Genesis, and its contribution today to ethical and environmental problems of arguably apocalyptic proportions.","PeriodicalId":318625,"journal":{"name":"Evil","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123565461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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