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| September 01, 2007 | Teichman, Jenny | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Roots of Evil, by John Kekes; Cornell University Press, 2005, US$19.95.

PART I of The Roots of Evil describes and explains six real-life examples of wicked behaviour. "The Sleep of Reason" (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters) discusses the crusade launched in 1209 against a heretical sect known variously as Albigensians after the town of Albi in the South of France and--to themselves--as Cathari (the pure). The crusading soldiers came from all over Europe. They killed men and women and children and inflicted tortures on their victims of a kind too horrible to think about.

The campaign was instigated by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) and ...

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