Joel Roney

3/27/2016
A History of Evil in Modern Thought

354-430- Augustine creates a way to interpret evil

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1266- Alfonso X declared If I had been of God's counsel at the creation many things wold
have been ordered better.

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1520- Martin Luther says When men or devils cause us suffering to teach us to have
patience and peace
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1641- Ren Descartes beings his Meditations about ones self, reality, humanity.
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1650- Blaise Pascal ponders humanity and yet but for this mystery we remain
incomprehensible to ourselves
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1680- Pierre Bayle made Alfonso the first Englightenment hero

Pierre Bayle. Wikipedia: The Free Encyopedia. Foundation, Inc. 22 July 2004.
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1680- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz coins Theodicy and states God could have not done any
better than he did
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1755- Lisbon Earthquake thousands die philosphers question if nature can be evil
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1755- Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues natural evil should be understood as having no inherent
meaning
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1800- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel states The sole aim of philosophy is to elimenate the
contingent
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2004.
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1880- Friedrich Nietzsche claims evil was created by humans not a natural force.
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1900- Sigmund Freud says we can't escape evil and has close to same thoughts on evil as
Nietzsche

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1940-1945- Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1.1 million (estamated) killed
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2004.
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1963- Hannah Arendt agrues about evil in her book Einchnamm in Jerusalem
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1996- Daniel Goldhagen writes Hitlers Willing Executioners
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2002- Susan Neiman defines evil in her book Evil in Modern Thought
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