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This book is about the inner roots of malice. It does not treat evil as a forceexternal to human nature as some kind of theological mystery. Malice isconsidered here as an anthropological fact. What stops us from examining thistype of fact is our desire to keep evil at bay.Despite our tendencies to separate the mind and body good and evil Flahaultargues that both stem from the same source within us. This knot inherent tothe human condition is the tension between our desire for absolute selfaffirmation and the fact that each of us can only exist through mediation byothers. The dependence on others weighs heavy on our shoulders hampering ourvery existence.Malice then is not merely a result of our biological constitution but isalso a response to our feelings. These can often resemble those of Miltons andShelleys monsters stories the author calls upon to understand features of thenature of evil that reason alone cannot grasp. «
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