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Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

This paper deals with Claudia Card's important contributions to a theory of evil that steps out from traditional models of thinking about this problem (theodicies, metaphysical theories, etc.). Instead, our author seeks to explore important elements from other theorists (such as Kant and Nietzsche) in order to build up her ideas of what she calls the “atrocity paradigm.” This critical essay focuses mainly in the spaces where Card's conclusions need to rethink the limits and constraints of her theory.

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Symposium
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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