This episode is an interview/discussion with David Bather Woods. David is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick's philosophy department, and a previous guest of this podcast.
In this episode, we discuss various questions about evil and evil-doers, including:
- Do you have to be free to be evil?
- If we aim to understand evil-doers, do we risk forgiving them?
- If our situations were different, could we all do evil things?
- What makes an evil act evil, rather than just very bad?
Some links:
- David's popular episode on Schopenhauer
Books David recommended:
- Being Evil: a philosophical perspective by Luke Russell
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt
- At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by John Améry
- Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
- The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evilby Claudia Card
- Evil: A History edited by Andrew P. Chignell
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