Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities

by John K. Roth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198725337
• ISBN13: 9780198725336
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"