Von Hildebrand on the Roots of Moral Evil

In this article, I sketch, both in broad outlines and in selected details, the new, richer picture of von Hildebrand’s account of moral evil as it emerges from my discovery of extensive materials in von Hildebrand´s Nachlass at the Bavarian State Library in Munich dealing with the “roots of moral ev...

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Main Author: Cajthaml, Martin (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B Pride
B Value
B Hatred
B Moral Evil
B Concupiscence
B Akrasia
B realist phenomenology
B Christian Ethics
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