The failures of ethics : confronting the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities /
Roth, John KAuthor
Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilisation's keystone. This book concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision, and action that tempt and incite us human beings to inflict incalculable harm.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue; Part I Protesting Failures: 1 The Failures of Ethics; 2 Rape as Torture and the Responsibility to Protect; 3 Philosophy and the “Logic” of Racism; 4 “You Shall Not Murder”; 5 God’s Failures Part II Resisting Failures; 6 The Holocaust’s Impact on Christian-Jewish Relations; 7 The Effects of Genocide; 8 What Has Been Learned?; 9 The Politics of Testimony; 10 Death and Meaning; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.
Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilisation's keystone. This book concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision, and action that tempt and incite us human beings to inflict incalculable harm.
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Ethics
Genocide
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Ethics
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
The failures of ethics.