The roots of evil

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (2005)
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Uses case studies of evil, the most serious of our moral Problems, to explain why people act with cruelty, greed, prejudice and fanatacism.

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BJ1401.K435 2005

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10.7591/9780801471315
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