TY - BOOK AU - Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff TI - The Nature of Evil U1 - 149.6 PY - 1931/// CY - USA PB - The Macmillan Publishing Company Inc. KW - English KW - Good and evil KW - General KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Pessimism KW - Optimism KW - Literature N1 - The problem of evil in the great religions -- The Christian-Medieval tradition -- Pascal's despair of reason -- Scepticism and theodicy -- Eighteenth century optimism -- The despair of civilization -- The devil in modern poetry -- Leopardi's lyrical pessimism -- Aristocracy without illusions: Alfred de Vigny -- The warp of Schopenhauer -- Grounds and limits of Schopenhauer's pessimism -- Hartmann's philosophy of the unconscious -- A German slough of despond -- A gradational view of the nature of evil ER -