The Evil Within: Why We Need Moral Philosophy 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190685395
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780190685393
• Author: Diane Jeske

The Evil Within demonstrates that the study of moral philosophy can help us to identify and correct for such mistakes. In applying the tools of moral philosophy to case studies of Nazi death camp commandants, American slave-holders, and a psychopathic serial killer, Diane Jeske shows how we can become wiser moral deliberators. A series of case studies serve as extended real-life thought experiments of moral deliberation gone awry, and show us how four impediments to effective moral deliberation — cultural norms and pressures, the complexity of the consequences of our actions, emotions, and self-deception — can be identified and overcome by the study and application of moral philosophy. Jeske unsparingly examines the uncomfortable parellels between the moral deliberations of those who are transparently evil (e.g. psychopaths, Nazis), and our own moral justifications.

Table contents:

1. Learning from Evil

2. Just the Bad and the Ugly

3. Culture and Moral Evaluation

4. Do the Ends Justify the Means?

5. The Feeling of Morality

6. Moral Evasion

7. The Moral of Mr. Jefferson’s Story

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