The Roots of Evil
The Roots of Evil
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Although this book includes a great deal of historical material, it is primarily a psychological work that attempts to draw on history in the service of psychological understanding of how genocides and mass killings come about.
This propensity may be “a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power that ceaseth 10 as Hobbes thought, or, as Freud claimed, “there onely in Death,” is no such thing as 'eradicating evil' [because] the deepest essence of ...
How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression.
The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it."—John Kekes The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; ...
Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those...
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