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The Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Paperback)
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The Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Paperback)
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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 civilization's keystone. The Failures of Ethics
concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of
thought, decision, and action that tempt and incite us human beings
to inflict incalculable harm. Absent the overriding of moral
sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical
traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities
could not have happened. Although these catastrophes do not
pronounce the death of ethics, they show that ethics is vulnerable,
subject to misuse and perversion, and that no simple reaffirmation
of ethics, as if nothing disastrous had happened, will do. Moral
and religious authority has been fragmented and weakened by the
accumulated ruins of history and the depersonalized advances of
civilization that have taken us from a bloody twentieth century
into an immensely problematic twenty-first. What nevertheless
remain essential are spirited commitment and political will that
embody the courage not to let go of the ethical but to persist for
it in spite of humankind's self-inflicted destructiveness.
Salvaging the fragmented condition of ethics, this book shows how
respect and honor for those who save lives and resist atrocity,
deepened attention to the dead and to death itself, and appeals for
human rights and renewed spiritual sensitivity confirm that ethics
contains and remains an irreplaceable safeguard against its own
failures.
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