A passing motorist stops to help the passengers of a car that has
crashed into an embankment. A hospice volunteer begins her shift in
hospital ward caring for people with AIDS. A Vietnam chopper pilot
stops the brutal execution of innocent civilians at Mylai by
American soldiers. A firefighter responds to a routine call. All of
these people are considered heroes, but what motivates such brave
and altruistic acts, whether by trained professionals or just
ordinary people? In "Do Unto Others," Holocaust survivor and
sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense
of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and
compassion, and what it means to put the welfare of others ahead of
one's own. Having been saved himself from the Nazis at age 16 as
the result of one non-Jewish family's altruism, Oliner has made a
lifelong study of the nature of altruism. Weaving together moving
personal testimony and years of observation, Oliner makes sense of
the factors that elicit altruistic behavior - exceptional acts by
ordinary people in ordinary times.
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