Download or read book Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition written by Gavin Rae and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.