Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

✍ Scribed by Roy F. Baumeister

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 431
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The question of evil, and the answers. Part 1 Image and reality: victims and perpetrators; the myth of pure evil. Part 2 The four roots of evil: greed, lust, ambition - evil as a means to an end; egotism and revenge; true believers and idealists; can evil be fun? the joy of hurting. Part 3 How they do it: crossing the line - how evil starts; how evil grows and spreads; dealing with guilt; ambivalence and fellow travelers. Part 4 Conclusion: why is there evil.

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