caa a22 4500 463161254 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9052-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9052-y Formosa Paul Department of Philosophy, School of HPRC, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut Understanding Evil Acts [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Formosa] Evil acts strike us, by their very nature, as not only horrifying and reprehensible, but also as deeply puzzling. No doubt for reasons like this, evil has often been seen as mysterious, demonic and beyond our human powers of understanding. The question I examine in this paper is whether or not we can (or would want to) overcome this puzzlement in the face of evil acts. I shall argue that we ought want to (in all cases) and can (in at least most cases) come to understand why people perpetrate evil acts. This is an appealing conclusion as it allows us to take practical steps to both minimise future occurrences of evil and come to terms with its past abominations. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Arendt nationallicence Eichmann nationallicence Empathy nationallicence Evil nationallicence Explanation nationallicence Hitler nationallicence Identification nationallicence Simulation nationallicence Theory nationallicence Understanding nationallicence Human Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 30/2(2007-06-01), 57-77 0163-8548 30:2<57 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9052-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9052-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Formosa Paul Department of Philosophy, School of HPRC, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 30/2(2007-06-01), 57-77 0163-8548 30:2<57 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer