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Hees, Birte (2022)

The Good Side of Evil: An Investigation on Avicenna´s Necessity of Evil and its Application to the Holocaust

Bachelor thesis | Filosofie (BA)
The problem of evil presented by Avicenna considers evil to be rather minimal, limited to single individuals and necessary. This dissertation attempts to apply this explanation of evil to the Holocaust. In comparison with the Banality of Evil by Arendt, Avicenna´s theory appears to be more cosmological and broad, while Arendt comments on the extremeness of evil of the Holocaust specifically.
Avicenna
Theodicy
Evil
Arendt
Holocaust
Author
Hees, Birte
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Supervisors
Bdaiwi, A.
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en