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Evil, feminism and a philosophy of transformation

Abstract

Rather than offering another ‘solution’ to the problem of evil, in the form of, say, a theodicy, the discussion of this chapter is situated within an ethical framework concerned with unmasking the enactment and perpetuation of ‘structural evils’ on the political and social levels. Indebted to the insights of feminist philosophers such as Michèle Le Doeuff, but also Hannah Arendt’s analysis of evil, the novelist Muriel Spark, and Pierre Bourdieu’s work on social suffering, the chapter seeks, not to justify the ways of God, but to critique and transform unjust structures, and to pave the way for alternatives that might best support human flourishing. This necessitates attempting to identify and understand the sources of human wickedness—social and individual—while contending that, ultimately, the only appropriate response to evil and suffering is to commit to a reorientation of the self towards others and the world.

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Authors

Clack, Beverley J.

Oxford Brookes departments

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\Department of History, Philosophy and Culture

Dates

Year of publication: 2018
Date of RADAR deposit: 2018-05-18



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This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Evil, feminism and a philosophy of transformation
This RADAR resource is Part of The problem of evil: Eight views in dialogue [ISBN: 9780198821625] / edited by N.N. Trakakis.

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