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?