Good & Evil

Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)

New chronology and further reading

Translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Introduction by Michael Tanner.

Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves

Now in paperback, a penetrating understanding of the discrepancies that lie between our professed values and our frequently destructive actions

How is it that good people do bad things? Why do otherwise ordinary people gamble, drink, embezzle company funds, become addicted to Internet porn, cheat on their spouse, or repeat the same destructive behaviors in relationships, at work, or in their habits? And, on a grander scale, how can we reconcile all of the pain and suffering present in the world?

In Why Good People Do Bad Things, James Hollis offers wisdom to help you acquire a new level of awareness to your daily actions and choices. Exploring the Shadow is important to our growth because it helps us repair inner fractures and explore what forces are working against us, and why. Hollis also looks at the larger picture of the Shadow at work in our culture—in history, religion, organizations, and corporations—in addition to its presence in our personal lives.

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard not only ­trans­formed Protestant theology but also anticipated twentieth-century existentialism and provided it with many of its motifs. Fear and Trembling and The Book on Adler–addressed to a general audience–have the imaginative excitement and intense personal appeal of the greatest literature. Only Plato and Nietzsche have matched Kierkegaard’s ability to give ideas so compellingly vivid and dramatic a shape.

Translated by Walter Lowrie

The Culture of Make Believe

Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to todayÂ’s death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Wo Es War)

With this little black book, Alain Badiou sows the seeds of intellectual revolt in the fields of contemporary ethical theory. He argues that the bedrock of present-day ethics--the normative conception of human rights--is morally bankrupt. "It amounts to a genuine nihilism, a threatening denial of thought as such," he writes. As Badiou sees it, current ethics has been enlisted in the army of capitalist-liberalism: "The theme of ethics and of human rights is compatible with the self-satisfied egoism of the affluent West, with advertising, and with service rendered to the powers that be." In support of his startling claim, he sketches a history of ethical theory and argues that today's ethics--the traffic not only of philosophers, but of politicians and professionals--is rooted in Kantian origins and a facile understanding of evil.

Badiou proposes a positive doctrine that he calls "The Ethic of Truths," ultimately arguing that "there is no ethics in general." Instead, there are only "processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation." The book's main failing is its length. It is simply too short to do justice to the panoply of literature on ethics or to inoculate Badiou against a host of objections that are lurking nearby. Nonetheless, his reasoning is powerful and surprising, marking some of the best writing in current European philosophy, and his credentials are impeccable. He teaches at the École normale supérieure in Paris and is author of a half dozen well-regarded books on a range of philosophical topics. --Eric de Place

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.

C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness and Beauty

What did C. S. Lewis think about truth, goodness and beauty?

Here are fifteen essays that explore three major philosophical themes from the writings of Lewis. David J. Baggett, Gary R. Habermas and Jerry L. Walls edit this overview of Lewis's philosophical thinking on arguments for Christianity, the character of God, theodicy, moral goodness, heaven and hell, a theory of literature, and the place of the imagination.

Demons and Deliverance: In The Ministry Of Jesus (Spiritual Warfare Series)

A Sequel to the all-time classic 'Pigs in the Parlor' by Frank Hammond. This book sets forth guiding principles from Scripture and the ministry of Jesus for confronting demons and delivering the oppressed. You will learn: The Nature & Function of the Demonic Kingdom; Discerning Right & Wrong Methods of Deliverance; Fears That Defeat Christian Soldiers; The Believer's Commission & Authority & Being Anointed; Maintaining Balance in Deliverance; Keeping Out Of The Devil's Reach, Demonic Connection With Mental Illness & Disease, and more. Specific Chapters on: Prayer For Deliverance, Healing & Deliverance, Two Opposing Kingdoms, Filling the House, The Gadarene Demoniac, Binding & Loosing, A Deliverance Failure, The Mission of the Seventy, The Spirit of Intimidation, The Spirit of Infirmity, and more.

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts

Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy)