Format:
Online-Ressource (382 p)
ISBN:
9780691127736
Content:
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, for them, literally unimaginable. In the words of one German Czech rescuer, ""The han
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Stories That Are True; CHAPTER ONE: Margot; CHAPTER TWO: Otto; CHAPTER THREE: John; CHAPTER FOUR: Irene; CHAPTER FIVE: Knud; CHAPTER SIX: The Complexity of the Moral Life and the Power of Identity to Influence Choice; CHAPTER SEVEN: How Identity and Perspective Led to Moral Choice; CHAPTER EIGHT: What Makes People Help Other: Constructing Moral Theory; A Different Way of Seeing Things; APPENDIX A: Narratives as Windows on the Minds of Others; APPENDIX B: Finding the Rescuers; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400849574
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691127736
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Hand of Compassion : Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust
Language:
English
Keywords:
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