Evil and evolution : Darwin and the brutalities of nature
Natural history without religion
The voyage and the emerging conviction of natural selection
Nature's cruelty : philosophical and religious implications
Darwin's struggle with theodicy
Does evolution necessitate atheism?
Evolution as religion : Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath
Evolution and the God of classical metaphysics
Providence and purpose after Darwin
Metaphysical impatience and emerging purpose
Summary
Evil, ethics, and evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and Darwinian anthropology
Darwin and ethics
From Darwin to evolutionary psychology
The controversial issue of altruism
Aggression and reproductive competition
Evolutionary psychology and religion
Determinism and transcendence : the central problem
Original sin and evolutionary psychology
Summary
Evil and the psychoanalytic tradition
Freud's gradual turn to the death instinct
Freud, evil, and religion
Tillich, Niebuhr, and Freud
Erich Fromm and human destructiveness
"Life lovers" and "death lovers"
Fromm's syndrome of decay
Fromm and Tillich on estrangement and healing
Ernest Becker : evil and the denial of death
Fear of death and evil
Does Becker exaggerate our narcissism?
Summary
Human potential and human destructiveness : the psychology of hate
Threat, anxiety, and reactive thinking
The role of egocentricity
Reactive offenders and psychopaths
Mental distortion and enemy making
The other side of hate
Hate and the shadow
Jesus, Paul, and the shadow
The Jekyll and Hyde story
Varieties and transformations of hate
Reasons for hate
The first experience of hate
Hatred, absolutes, and the "evil imagination"
Purifying our hatred
Evaluating these three theories of hate
Summary
Ordinary people and malevolent circumstances : the social context of evil
Destructive obedience
How much do social-psychology experiments tell us about evil?
The breakdown of self-regulation
Social critiques of excessive individualism
Summary
Individual and sytemic evil : should one be privileged over the other?
Sin reaffirmed : Langdon Gilkey and Shantung compound
Niebuhr, anxiety, and sin
Pride and self-obsession
From the anxious individual to the corrupt system
Original violence : Marjorie Suchocki's objection to Niebuhr
The shift from the individual to the social in pastoral care
A Niebuhrian response to feminist and liberation charges
Summary
Concluding thoughts
Twelve major convictions
An open-ended issue.
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Dimensions of evil : contemporary perspectives by Terry D. Cooper. ISBN 9780800662172. Published by Fortress in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
