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Lies in a Mirror: An Essay on Evil and Deceit

Lies in a Mirror: An Essay on Evil and Deceit


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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Origin of Evil - explores the parallels between mass murder and the cases that the author has dealt with in court. Chapter 2: Myths and Theories - looks at how Fromm, Jung, Solzhenitsyn and others have attempted to theorise human destructiveness. Chapter 3: Inverted Thinking, Mythical Thinking - analyses how myths spring naturally out of events that are too strong in their emotional impact for people to deal with rationally. Chapter 4: Patterns of Destruction - takes recurring patterns of violence, such as rape in warfare and the murder of children, and debates if these patterns are rational or are myth based. Chapter 5: The Divine Leader - asks how people could be mad enough to surrender all responsibility to leaders who think that they are gifted by Providence with a divine mission. Chapter 6: The Paramount Idea - is concerned with how people can put their duty to an ideology above the rights of other people, and their own life, even to the extent of becoming a suicide martyr. Chapter 7: Spared by a Killer - presents several cases of people who have been spared from certain death by a gang of mass murders, bringing the idea of the mirror into focus. Chapter 8: Closing the Circle of Hate - argues that human beings need to be locked in to a myth of hatred if mass murder and genocide is to succeed. Chapter 9: Almost Anyone Can Kill - discusses the murder of elderly people in rural areas, how the killers split into specialities in order to rob, but how degrading the victim to get him to submit causes inhuman rage to boil over. Chapter 10: Destruction of the Self - poses the question of deceit and the eruption of violence, is it about diminishing the self so that the negative side of human potential takes over?

About the Author :
Peter Charleton is a barrister. He graduated in law from Trinity College Dublin in 1980 where he later lectured in criminal law. His previous books are: Controlled Drugs and the Criminal Law (Dublin, 1986); Irish Criminal Law, Cases and Materials (Dublin, 1991); Offences Against the Person (Dublin, 1991); and Criminal Law (Dublin, 1999, with P.A. McDermott and M. Bolger).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781842181027
  • Publisher: Blackhall Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackhall Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1842181025
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: An Essay on Evil and Deceit


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