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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Understanding Evil

Monday March 8, 2004
Radical Evil: A Philosophical Investigation Recently Received: Radical Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, by Richard J. Bernstein.

What is evil, and do we deal with it? There are certain things which are obviously evil, like death camps, but not so obvious is what we should do about them and how we should deal with the presence in our midst. Indeed, if they are so obviously evil, how could they possibly appear in the first place - shouldn't they be unthinkable?

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