Tom Angier - The History of Evil in Antiquity: 2000 Bce to 450 Ce

We think we know what evil is, since weve all had some experience with the subject. Yet it has been understood in very different ways across various cultures and times. The History of Evil series bids fair to deepen our grasp of how various, and how variously conceived, evil is. The diversity examined in this first volume of the series is already enough to raise the fundamental question of whether were really talking about the same thing when we talk about conceptions of evil in West and East, antiquity and modernity. Its a mind-expanding volume.

Phillip Cary, Eastern University, USA

The History of Evil in Antiquity would be a very useful volume to employ in a college course on the problem of evil. It should also prove of great interest to the many members of the general public who wrestle with the tension between the claim that the world is rooted in divine goodness and the existence of obvious and often horrendous evils.

William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

This first volume of The History of Evil covers Graeco-Roman, Indian, Near Eastern, and Eastern philosophy and religion from 2000 BCE to 450 CE . This book charts the foundations of the history of evil among the major philosophical traditions and world religions, beginning with the oldest recorded traditions: the Vedas and Upaniads, Confucianism and Daoism, and Buddhism, and continuing through Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian schools of thought. This cutting-edge treatment of the history of evil at its crucial and determinative inception will appeal to those with particular interests in the ancient period and early theories and ideas of evil and good, as well as those seeking an understanding of how later philosophical and religious developments were conditioned and shaped.

Tom P. S. Angier is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.

Series Editors: Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro

Volume I

First published 2019

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Names: Angier, Tom P. S., editor.

Title: The history of evil / edited by Tom Angier, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge-Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048701 | ISBN 9781138642300 (v. 1 : hbk)

Subjects: LCSH: Good and evilHistory.

Classification: LCC BJ1401 .H57 2016 | DDC 170.9dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048701

ISBN: 978-1-138-23716-2 (Set, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-64230-0 (Vol I, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-63005-2 (Vol I, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23680-6 (Vol II, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13852-9 (Vol II, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23682-0 (Vol III, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13848-2 (Vol III, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23683-7 (Vol IV, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13840-6 (Vol, IV, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23684-4 (Vol V, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13836-9 (Vol V, ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-23687-5 (Vol VI, hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-13960-1 (Vol VI, ebk)

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