TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glover,Jonathan
TI  - Humanity: a moral history of the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780300186406
U1  - 909.82 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Ethics, Modern
KW  - War
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Humanity
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - March2017
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
; Pt. 1: Ethics without the moral law -- Pt. 2: The moral psychology of waging war -- Pt. 3: Tribalism -- Pt. 4: War as a trap -- Pt. 5: Belief and terror: Stalin and his heirs -- Pt. 6: The will to create mankind anew: The Nazi experiment -- Pt. 7: On the recent moral history of humanity
N2  - The 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 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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