Analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contestedCharting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil - as a conceptual problem - came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, GermanIdealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation. | Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition by Gavin Rae, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters