Facing Evil Confronting the Dreadful Power

From the Holocaust to the destruction of the World Trade Center, evil human acts continue to defy all attempts at explanation. This collection of lectures on evil by prominent scholars, writers, theologians and philosophers resonates powerfully as a guide to these dark forces and will help conceptualize a plan for action against them. Included are contributions by Maya Angelou, M. Scott Peck, Rollo May, Raul Hilberg, Samuel Proctor, and others.

Note to the Reader

xiii

Editors' Preface

xiv

Acknowledgments

xviii

Introduction

1

(8)

PART I: UNDERSTANDING EVIL

The Dark Eye in the World

9

(8)

Laurens van der Post

Clearing the Spring

17

(4)

Liz Carpenter

That Which Lives After Us

21

(26)

Maya Angelou

The Evil One

47

(24)

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Response to Jeffrey Burton Russell

62

(4)

Dialogue

66

(5)

Creativity and Evil

71

(12)

Rollo May

Small Sins and Large Evils

83

(10)

Karl Weick

Why Evil Attracts Us

93

(6)

Gregory Curtis

PART II: IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

The Holocaust

99

(20)

Raul Hilberg

Response and Dialogue

111

(8)

Cruelty: The Empirical Evil

119

(20)

Philip Paul Hallie

Dialogue with Philip Hallie

130

(9)

The Sounds of Evil

139

(8)

Tony Schwartz

The Shadow of Accidental Nuclear War: The Irreparable Evil

147

(30)

Herbert L. Abrams

Response to Herbert Abrams

166

(11)

PART III: THE PARADOX OF HOPE

Tai Ji

177

(6)

Chungliang Al Huang

Commentary: The Guises of Evil

183

(6)

Betty Sue Flowers

Healing Institutional Evil Dialogue with M. Scott Peck

189

(20)

M. Scott Peck

Evil: The Unfulfillment of the Good

209

(20)

Samuel D. Proctor

Reflections on Evil Summary and Dialogue

229

(20)

Richard W. Lyman

Afterword

247

(2)

THINKING ABOUT EVIL: A SELECTION OF TEXTS

249

(26)

Views of the Ancient Greeks

249

(1)

The Christian Theory of Saint Augustine

250

(5)

Criticism of the Privatio Boni Theory

255

(2)

Jung of Evil

257

(8)

The Shadow

265

(10)

Annotated Bibliography

275

(10)

Index

285

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Facing Evil Confronting the Dreadful Power Behind Genocide, Terroism, and Cruelty

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