Women and Evil
by Nel Noddings
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Human beings love to fictionalize evil--to terrorize each other with stories of defilement, horror, excruciating pain, and divine retribution. Beneath the surface of bewitchment and half-sick amusement, however, lies the realization that evil is real and that people must find a way to face and overcome it. What we require, Carl Jung suggested, is a morality of evil--a carefully thought out plan by which to manage the evil in ourselves, in others, and in whatever deities we posit. This book show more is not written from a Jungian perspective, but it is nonetheless an attempt to describe a morality of evil. One suspects that descriptions of evil and the so-called problem of evil have been thoroughly suffused with male interests and conditioned by masculine experience. This result could hardly have been avoided in a sexist culture, and recognizing the truth of such a claim does not commit us to condemn every male philosopher and theologian who has written on the problem. It suggests, rather, that we may get a clearer view of evil if we take a different standpoint. The standpoint I take here will be that of women; that is, I will attempt to describe evil from the perspective of women's experience. show lessTags
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Nel Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education Emerita at Stanford University. She has taught at the elementary, junior high, senior high, and college levels and has served as acting dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. She holds six honorary doctorates and many other awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from show more the American Educational Research Association. show less
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 170.88042 — Philosophy & psychology Ethics Animals rights, Euthanasia, Pro-life With Respect To Particular Groups of People
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- BJ1401 .N63 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Ethics Ethics
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