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On The Concept Of Evil: An Analysis Of Genocide And State Sovereignty, Jason J. Campbell
On The Concept Of Evil: An Analysis Of Genocide And State Sovereignty, Jason J. Campbell
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The history of ideas and contemporary genocide studies conjointly suggests a meaningful secular conception of evil. I will show how the history of ideas supplies us with a cumulative pattern, or an eventual gestalt, of the sought-for conception of universal secular evil. This gestalt is a result of my examination of the history of ideas. The historical analysis of evil firmly grounds my research in the tradition of philosophical inquiry, where I shift the focus from the problem of evil, which is indebted to theological discourse, to an analysis of the concept of evil. Next, I show how this gestalt …