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Humanity : a moral history of the twentieth century /
The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. This book looks at the politics of our times and the roots of human nature to discover why so many atrocities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Never Such Innocence Again
- PART ONE: ETHICS WITHOUT THE MORAL LAW
- 2 Nietzsche's Challenge
- 3 Self-interest as a Restraint
- 4 The Moral Resources: Humanity
- 5 The Moral Resources: Moral Identity
- 6 The Festival of Cruelty
- 7 Answering Nietzsche
- PART TWO: THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WAGING WAR
- 8 Close Combat
- 9 The Case of My Lai
- 10 The Shift to Killing at a Distance
- 11 Bombing
- 12 Hiroshima
- 13 War and the Moral Resources
- PART THREE: TRIBALISM14 Rwanda
- 15 The Tribal Trap
- 16 The Political Containment of Tribalism
- 17 The Roots of Tribal Conflict
- 18 The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves
- PART FOUR: WAR AS A TRAP
- 19 The Trap of the Trenches
- 20 The Home Front
- 21 The Stone Has Started to Roll: 1914
- 22 Sliding Out of the Trap: 1962
- 23 Ways Out
- PART FIVE: BELIEF AND TERROR: STALIN AND HIS HEIRS
- 24 In Those Years
- 25 The Trap of Terror
- 26 Belief: Ends and Means
- 27 Stalinism and the Moral Resources
- 28 The Working of the Belief System
- 29 Stalinism, Truth and Moral Identity30 Mao's Utopian Project
- 31 Overturning the Basket: Cambodia
- 32 Utopia and Belief
- PART SIX: THE WILL TO CREATE MANKIND ANEW: THE NAZI EXPERIMENT
- 33 The Core of Nazism
- 34 Obedience and Conformity
- 35 The Attack on Humanity
- 36 The Erosion of Moral Identity
- 37 The Nazi Moral Identity
- 38 The Willingness to Believe
- 39 Philosophers
- 40 Bystanders
- 41 Interpreting the Nazi Episode
- PART SEVEN: ON THE RECENT MORAL HISTORY OF HUMANITY
- 42 Some People and Not Others
- 43 Ethics Humanized
- Epilogue: The Past Alive in the PresentReferences
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Index
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