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035    246624
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050  4 BJ1500 |b.R68 2015
100 1  Roth, John K., |eauthor.
245 14 The failures of ethics : |bconfronting the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities / |cJohn K. Roth.
250    First edition.
264  1 Oxford, U.K. : |bOxford University Press, |c2015.
300    277 pages ; |c23 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-266) and index.
505 0  Prologue : The Thread -- I. Protesting Failures : -- 1. The failures of ethics -- 2. Rape as torture and the responsibility to protect -- 3. Philosophy and the "logic" of racism -- 4. "You shall not murder" -- 5. God's failures -- II. Resisting Failures : -- 6. The holocaust's impact on Christian-Jewish relations -- 7. The effects of genocide -- 8. What has been learned? -- 9. The politics of testimony -- 10. Death and meaning -- Epilogue : The right side of history?
520    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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Ethics.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xMoral and ethical aspects.
611 07 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866
648  7 1939 - 1945 |2fast
852 0   |bstacks |hBJ1500 |i.R68 2015