On the World and Ourselves
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been linked to the awareness of choice and to the freedom and responsibility to choose this is what makes us human. But the responsibility to choose is a burden that weighs heavily on our shoulders, and the temptation to hand this over to someone else be they a demagogue or a scientist who claims to trace everything back to our genes is a tempting illusion, like the paradise…
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Weitere Autoren: Obirek, Stanislaw
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-8715-5
- EAN: 9780745687155
- Produktnummer: 18933234
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 892 KB
Über den Autor
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Stanislaw Obirek is a former Jesuit and priest, and is now Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Warsaw.
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