Otherness and the problem of evil

how does that which is other become evil?

Calvin Schrag

pp. 149-156

in: Eugene Long (ed), Self and other, Berlin, Springer, 2007

Abstract

In seeking to answer the question "How does that which is other become evil?" the author provides a discussion of four entwined aspects of the issue at stake: (1) difficulty in achieving clarity on the grammar of evil; (2) genocide as a striking illustration of otherness becoming evil; (3) the challenge of postnationalism as a resource for dealing with otherness in the socio-political arena; and (4) the ethico-religious dimension as it relates to the wider problem of evil.