Radical evil

Bernstein seeks to discover what we can learn abaut the meaning of evil and human responsability. He turns to philosophers such as Kant, who coined the expression "radical evil", as well as to Hegel and Scheeling. He also examines more recent exploretions of evil, namely the thinking of Freud and Nietzsche on the moral psycology of evil. Finally, he looks at the way in which three post Holocaust thinkers - Emmanuel Levinas, Hans Jonas, and Hannah Arendt - have sought to come to grips with evil "after Auschwitz.