Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth CenturyThe twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. This important book looks at the politics of our times and the roots of human nature to discover why so many atrocities were perpetuated and how we can create a social environment to prevent their recurrence. Jonathan Glover finds similarities in the psychology of those who perpetuate, collaborate in, and are complicit with atrocities, uncovering some disturbing common elements -- tribal hatred, blind adherence to ideology, diminished personal responsibility -- as well as characteristics unique to each situation. Acknowledging that human nature has a dark and destructive side, he proposes that we encourage the development of a political and personal moral imagination that will compel us to refrain from and protest all acts of cruelty. |
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HUMANITY: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Avis d'utilisateur - KirkusAn attempt to formulate a new ethics, based on human psychology, that will account for 20th-century atrocities and offer some realistic hope that they can be avoided in the future.The mindless carnage ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - jcvogan1 - LibraryThingThrough a review of the targetting of civilians in WWI and WWII, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and Nazism, along with a few other examples, talks about the role of morality in human political activity ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
In Those Years | 237 |
The Trap of Terror | 241 |
Belief Ends and Means | 252 |
Stalinism and the Moral Resources | 257 |
The Working of the Belief System | 265 |
Stalinism Truth and Moral Identity | 274 |
Maos Utopian Project | 283 |
Overturning the Basket Cambodia | 299 |
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Hiroshima | 89 |
War and the Moral Resources | 113 |
TRIBALISM | 117 |
Rwanda | 119 |
The Tribal Trap | 123 |
The Political Containment of Tribalism | 133 |
The Roots of Tribal Conflict | 141 |
The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves | 149 |
WAR AS A TRAP | 153 |
The Trap of the Trenches | 155 |
The Home Front | 165 |
The Stone Has Started to Roll 1914 | 177 |
Sliding Out of the Trap 1962 | 200 |
Ways Out | 224 |
BELIEF AND TERROR STALIN AND HIS HEIRS | 235 |
Utopia and Belief | 310 |
THE WILL TO CREATE MANKIND ANEW THE NAZI EXPERIMENT | 315 |
The Core of Nazism | 317 |
Obedience and Conformity | 328 |
35 The Attack on Humanity | 337 |
The Erosion of Moral Identity | 349 |
The Nazi Moral Identity | 355 |
The Willingness to Believe | 360 |
Philosophers | 365 |
Bystanders | 379 |
Interpreting the Nazi Episode | 394 |
ON THE RECENT MORAL HISTORY OF HUMANITY | 399 |
Some People and Not Others | 401 |
Ethics Humanized | 405 |
The Past Alive in the Present | 411 |
References | 415 |
Sources and Acknowledgements | 448 |
Index | 451 |

