Good and evil : two interpretations / [print]
by Martin Buber.
- Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, [(c)1997.
- 143 pages ; 21 cm
A Hebrew version of the first essay was published in 1950 under title: ha-Tsedek veha-avel al-pi tseror mizmore Tehilim; the second essay is a translation of Bilder von Gut und Bose.
Right and wrong I. Against the Generation of the Lie II. The Rift III. Judgement on the Judges IV. The Heart Determines V. The Ways Images of good and evil (Part One) I. The Tree of Knowledge II. Kain III. Imagination and Impulse Images of good and evil (Part Two) I. The Primal Principles II. The Lie Against Being Images of good and evil (Part Three) I. The Truth of the Myths II. Our Point of Departure III. The First Stage IV. The Second Stage V. Evil and Good
"The two "interpretations" which are united in this volume differ from one another in method and purpose, but they supplement each other to such an extent that I have willingly accepted the suggestion to unite them here in an external way as well. Both are concerned with good and evil, but Right and Wrong is concerned with its place in man's observation of the human world, Images with its place in the personal development of the individual man. The first deals with the apparent contradiction which holds sway in destiny, the second above all with the factual conflict which holds sway in the soul. Here an answer is sought to the question, "Why is evil so powerful?", there to the question, "What is the origin of evil?" Thus one can describe Images of Good and Evil as an interpretation because it proceeds from several Old Israelitic and Old Persian myths. These myths portray in great images the twofold prehistorical origin of that which we call evil and thereby enable the modern thinker to point out what corresponds to this twofoldness in that biographical reality of present-day man which is known to us. Right and Wrong is interpretation in another sense. Here several Psalms are examined to discover how the gradually arising and growing insight into the relation between wrongdoing and true existence is expressed in them. Taken together, the two books are to be regarded as a contribution to the foundation of an ontological ethics."--Foreword, pages v-vi]. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Evil-Buber-1980-12-01-dp-B01NAOTA5Q/dp/B01NAOTA5Q/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1578927702
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