Andrew Michael Flescher is a member of the Core Faculty, Program in Public Health,associate professor of Preventive Medicine, and associate professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality.

While fully recognizing the sometimes horrifying nature of human existence, it is a book of measured hope. Chico Enterprise-Record Delivers a compelling set of plausible theories of why bad things happen to good people. This research makes a considerable contribution to studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and Religion. -- Diana Fordham Association for Mormon Letters A probing study of moral evil (and natural evil, too, such as a devastating tsunami) is brilliantly clear and mostly jargon free, well worth pondering. -- Dan Barnett Chico Enterprise-Record

• Introduction: "Evil" And Evil 1. Evil versus Goodness: Satan and Other "Evildoers" 2. Evil as The Good in Disguise: Theodicy and the Crisis of Meaning 3. Evil as "Evil": Perspectivalism and the Construction of Evil 4. Evil as the Absence of Goodness: Privation and the Ubiquity of Wickedness 5. Evil as Inaction: Augustine, Aristotle, and Connecting the Thesis of Privation to Virtue Ethics Bibliography Index

Andrew Michael Flescher is a member of the Core Faculty, Program in Public Health,associate professor of Preventive Medicine, and associate professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality.

While fully recognizing the sometimes horrifying nature of human existence, it is a book of measured hope. Chico Enterprise-Record Delivers a compelling set of plausible theories of why bad things happen to good people. This research makes a considerable contribution to studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and Religion. -- Diana Fordham Association for Mormon Letters A probing study of moral evil (and natural evil, too, such as a devastating tsunami) is brilliantly clear and mostly jargon free, well worth pondering. -- Dan Barnett Chico Enterprise-Record

• Introduction: "Evil" And Evil 1. Evil versus Goodness: Satan and Other "Evildoers" 2. Evil as The Good in Disguise: Theodicy and the Crisis of Meaning 3. Evil as "Evil": Perspectivalism and the Construction of Evil 4. Evil as the Absence of Goodness: Privation and the Ubiquity of Wickedness 5. Evil as Inaction: Augustine, Aristotle, and Connecting the Thesis of Privation to Virtue Ethics Bibliography Index

Andrew Michael Flescher is a member of the Core Faculty, Program in Public Health,associate professor of Preventive Medicine, and associate professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality.

While fully recognizing the sometimes horrifying nature of human existence, it is a book of measured hope. Chico Enterprise-Record Delivers a compelling set of plausible theories of why bad things happen to good people. This research makes a considerable contribution to studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and Religion. -- Diana Fordham Association for Mormon Letters A probing study of moral evil (and natural evil, too, such as a devastating tsunami) is brilliantly clear and mostly jargon free, well worth pondering. -- Dan Barnett Chico Enterprise-Record

• Introduction: "Evil" And Evil 1. Evil versus Goodness: Satan and Other "Evildoers" 2. Evil as The Good in Disguise: Theodicy and the Crisis of Meaning 3. Evil as "Evil": Perspectivalism and the Construction of Evil 4. Evil as the Absence of Goodness: Privation and the Ubiquity of Wickedness 5. Evil as Inaction: Augustine, Aristotle, and Connecting the Thesis of Privation to Virtue Ethics Bibliography Index