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Ordinary people and extraordinary evil : a report on the beguilings of evil /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1993.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary. Evil Defined. Look at Evil Behaviorally. Is Evil Real? Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? Overview of the Book
- Ch. 1. Confronting Evil and its Paradoxes. Arendt's View of Eichmann. Is a Dispassionate Study of Evil Possible? The Desire to Ignore Evil. People May Deliberately Engage in Evil Activities
- Ch. 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work. Incremental Processes. Packages and Riders. The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens
- Ch. 3. Some Faces of Evil. A Humane American Physician. An SS Physician. A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. My Lai
- Ch. 4. Conclusion: Turning away from Evil. A Fable About the Two Research-Minded Physicians. Raoul Wallenberg and Rudolf Hoess Revisited. The Compelling Power of Immediacy and Extricating Oneself from Taking Part in Evil. Another Look at the Five Paradoxes: Some Answers, Some New Questions, Some Hope. The Larger Picture.