Humanity A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Name: Humanity A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Price: 3.45 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780300087154

ISBN-10: 0300087152

ISBN-13: 9780300087154

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jonathan Glover

List price: $15.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Rent eBooks

180 day rental: $15.95 Expiration date: 10/20/2024

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.45

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 476
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Jonathan Glover is director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College, London.



Preface


Acknowledgements



Never Such Innocence Again



Ethics Without the Moral Law



Nietzsche's Challenge



Self-interest as a Restraint



The Moral Resources: Humanity



The Moral Resources: Moral Identity



The Festival of Cruelty



Answering Nietzsche



The Moral Psychology of Waging War



Close Combat



The Case of My Lai



The Shift to Killing at a Distance



Bombing



Hiroshima



War and the Moral Resources



Tribalism



Rwanda



The Tribal Trap



The Political Containment of Tribalism



The Roots of Tribal Conflict



The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves



War as a Trap



The Trap of the Trenches



The Home Front



The Stone Has Started to Roll: 1914



Sliding Out of the Trap: 1962



Ways Out



Belief and Terror: Stalin and His Heirs



In Those Years



The Trap of Terror



Belief: Ends and Means



Stalinism and the Moral Resources



The Working of the Belief System



Stalinism, Truth and Moral Identity



Mao's Utopian Project



Overturning the Basket: Cambodia



Utopia and Belief



The Will to Create Mankind Anew: The Nazi Experiment



The Core of Nazism



Obedience and Conformity



The Attack on Humanity



The Erosion of Moral Identity



The Nazi Moral Identity



The Willingness to Believe



Philosophers



Bystanders



Interpreting the Nazi Episode



On the Recent Moral History of Humanity



Some People and Not Others



Ethics Humanized


Epilogue: The Past Alive in the Present


References


Sources and Acknowledgements


Index