tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post4809934425332973274..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Terry Eagleton's On Evil: A Review, Part IClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-34184103518703278492010-06-16T14:27:31.129-04:002010-06-16T14:27:31.129-04:00Seems like an interesting book. Though I share hi...Seems like an interesting book. Though I share his social views, I generally don't agree with Eagleton philosophically, steeped as he is in the Scholastic tradition, and from the fact that he draws so much on the current neo-Lacanian craze (the intellectual equivalent to Heavy Metal music: exciting, yet insufferably pompous and morose). Hanna Arendt's contribution, I think, is closer to the mark, wherein "evil" is simply the result of indolence, conformity, and general indifference to suffering.ericnoreply@blogger.com