Disc 1. The nature and origins of evil ; Enuma elish : evil as cosmic battle
disc 2. Greece : tragedy and The Peloponnesian War ; Greek philosophy : human evil and malice
disc 3. The Hebrew Bible : human rivalry with God ; The Hebrew Bible : wisdom and the fear of God
disc 4. Christian scripture : apocalypse and original sin ; The inevitability of evil : Irenaeus
disc 5. Creation, evil, and the fall : Augustine ; Rabbinic Judaism : the evil impulse
disc 6. Islam : Iblis the failed, once-glorious being ; On self-deception in evil : scholasticism
disc 7. Dante : Hell and the abandonment of hope ; The Reformation : the power of evil within
disc 8. Dark politics : Machiavelli on how to be bad ; Hobbes : evil as a social construct
disc 9. Montaigne and Pascal : evil and the self ; Milton : epic evil
disc 10. The Enlightenment and its discontents ; Kant : evil at the root of human agency
disc 11. Hegel : the slaughter block of history ; Marx : materialism and evil
disc 12. The American north and south : holy war ; Nietzsche : considering the language of evil
disc 13. Dostoevsky : the demonic in modernity ; Conrad : incomprehensible terror
disc 14. Freud : the death drive and the inexplicable ; Camus : the challenge to take evil seriously
disc 15. Post-WWII Protestant theology on evil ; Post-WWII Roman Catholic theology on evil
disc 16. Post-WWII Jewish thought on evil ; Arendt : the banality of evil
disc 17. Life in truth : 20th-century poets on evil ; Science and the empirical study of evil
disc 18. The "unnaming" of evil ; Where can hope be found?
