ECTS:

5

Code:

ΚΥ0802

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Compulsory

Teaching Period:

Spring

Course Content:

Evil in the theological traditions (Judaism, Manichaeism, Christianism, Gnosticism)
The problem of the knowledge of what is evil.
Evin in modern philosophy: Kant, Nietzsche, Max Scheler. Hanna Arendt.
Evil as the absence of good and evil as malevolent will.
The radical evil and the banality of evil.
Political occurrences of evil.
Genocides and forms of Totalitarianism.
The special case of the Holocaust

Upon the successful completion of the course, the students will be acquainted with the main theological and philosophical approaches to the yet unresolved problem of evil. In particular, the students will be in a position: i) to understand the formation of and appreciate the moral and political impact of the historically predominant stereotypes about what is to be considered as evil, ii) to deal with the phenomena of demonization of the other and of ideological fanaticism, iii) to recognize and analyze the psychological mechanisms transforming ordinary people into evil-doers.