Moral Evil in Practical Ethics by Shlomit Harrosh

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This book explores a constructive role for the concept of evil in practical ethics.

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Moral Evil in Practical Ethics by Shlomit Harrosh

This book explores a constructive role for the concept of evil in practical ethics.

"Overall, the essays provide profound and troubling reflections on questions that are not only major concerns of our times but also a flourishing area of investigation in moral philosophy"Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"With this valuable collection of philosophical essays, Harrosh and Crisp seek to improve understanding of the troubling concept of evil to determine what responses are appropriate to its various manifestations … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."CHOICE

Shlomit Harrosh is a research fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought, Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. She also tutors for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She completed her doctoral thesis Evildoing: An Attack on Morality at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on moral and political philosophy, and she is currently working on the ethics of war. Roger Crisp is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Australian Catholic University. His research focusses on normative ethics, metaethics, and the history of ethics. He is the author of Mill on Utilitarianism (Routledge, 1997), Reasons and the Good (2006), and The Cosmos of Duty (2015). He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (2013), and translator of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (2000).
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ISBN 13 9781138316041
ISBN 10 1138316040
Title Moral Evil in Practical Ethics
Author Shlomit Harrosh
Series Routledge Studies In Ethics And Moral Theory
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2018-07-11
Number of pages 258
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