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The Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,218
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The Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Hardcover): John K. Roth

The Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Hardcover)

John K. Roth

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2015
Authors: John K. Roth
Dimensions: 222 x 147 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872533-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics
LSN: 0-19-872533-7
Barcode: 9780198725336

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