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Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues The Philebus and The Laws.

Plato --- Metaphysics. --- Dialectic. --- Métaphysique --- Dialectique --- Plato. --- Métaphysique --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind

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Reformation --- Polarity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Luther, Martin, --- Reformation - Germany - Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt) --- Polarity - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Réforme --- Allemagne --- Wittenberg (allemagne) --- Histoire religieuse --- 16e siècle

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"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it."-John Kekes The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793-94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943-44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970's; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.

Good and evil. --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- General ethics

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Dialectic. --- Dialectique --- Plato. --- Dialectic --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Plato --- Platon --- Platoon --- Платон --- プラトン

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De filosofie wordt gedreven door een verlangen naar waarheid. Eenvoudig is dat niet. Dagelijks stellen filosofen ? en andere wetenschappers ? vast dat ze zich kunnen vergissen. Wat is waarheid en waar kunnen we ze vinden? Het is een oude vraag die nog steeds actueel blijft. Luc Taccoen, filosoof en klinisch psycholoog, stelt dat het de mens verboden is om op de plaats van de waarheid te gaan staan. De mens is verplicht te leven in de paradox: fervent naar de waarheid te zoeken, maar zich nooit vestigen op de plaats van de waarheid. Wanneer de mens de waarheid meent te hebben gevonden, zal die in haar tegendeel omkeren tot macht, geweld of uitbuiting. Op de plaats van de waarheid wordt de waarheid een leugen. Het goede wordt dan vervormd tot kwaad, denk maar aan Adam en Eva, het drama van Oedipus of het verhaal van een tiran als Hitler. De hele geschiedenis van de filosofie werd met dit euvel geplaagd.

Theory of knowledge --- #KVHB:Psychoanalyse --- #KVHB:Psychopathologie --- Psychoanalyse ; ethiek. --- Good and evil --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought