“‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tortures the truth about interrogations”
A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Tag: evil
Catholic Encyclopedia: Evil
See the entry on evil in the Catholic Encyclopedia, posted at New Advent.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Problem of Evil
Read “The Problem of Evil” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Stanford Prison Experiment
See the website for the Stanford Prison Experiment, a classic simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment conducted at Stanford University in 1971. Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo wanted to see under what conditions ordinary people — in this case, volunteers who agreed to play guards or prisoners — would perceive others as less than human […]
“For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be Evil”
Read a Feb. 8, 2005, New York Times article posted by the web site s8int.com about how the scientific world approaches the concept of evil.
“Nature of Evil”
Listen to a National Public Radio segment on the nature of evil from April 8, 1999.
“The Problem of Evil”
Listen to a 12-minute American Public Media audio segment on “The Problem of Evil” from Feb. 15, 2002.
“From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy”
Read a June 13, 2011, New York Times review of British scholar Simon Baron-Cohen’s book, The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty. See also an excerpt of the book.
“Is Religion Evil?”
Read a July 23, 2011, column by Ken Chitwood about evil in the aftermath of the July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway, posted on the website of the Houston Chronicle.