Visualizing Atrocitytakes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths ...that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the banality of evil work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it.
This book gathers the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of the roots of goodness and evil. Since the late 1960s, Ervin Staub has studied the causes of helpful, caring, generous, and altruistic ...behavior. He has also studied bullying and victimization in schools as well as youth violence and its prevention. He spent years studying the origins of genocide and mass killing and has examined the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the autogenocide in Cambodia, the disappearances in Argentina, the genocide in Rwanda. He has applied his work in many real world settings and has consulted parents, teachers, police officers, and political leaders. Since September 11th, he has appeared frequently in the media explaining the causes and prevention of terrorism. Professor Staub's work is collected together for the first time in The Psychology of Good and Evil.
This article aims to provide an explication of a new conceptualization of God’s defeat of horrors (i.e., horror defeat) and a successful solution to Problem of Horrors—which can be termed the ...Reconciliation Account. This specific conceptualization will be formulated in light of the work of Marilyn McCord Adams, with an original extension of her work being made by utilizing the work of Richard Swinburne and Robin Collins, which, in combination, will provide us with a more robust solution to the issue raised by horrors.
„Problem bliskości" (closeness problem) został postawiony przez Philippę Foot w artykule The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect. Autorka poddaje w nim krytyce klasyczną wersję ...zasady podwójnego skutku odróżniającą zamierzenie bezpośrednie od pośredniego i uznającą na tej podstawie za usprawiedliwione powodowanie złych skutków, które były wprawdzie przez sprawcę przewidywane, ale nie zamierzone. Foot uważa, że jeśli uznajemy spowodowanie złego skutku za usprawiedliwione, to sposób w jaki tego dokonujemy nie ma znaczenia, odwołanie do dystynkcji pośrednio/bezpośrednio może natomiast prowadzić w niektórych przypadkach do absurdalnych rozwiązań pozwalających wyróżnić w jednym działaniu dwa zdarzenia - stanowiące odpowiednio przedmiot pośredniego i bezpośredniego zamierzenia - które są względem siebie zbyt bliskie, by można do nich zastosować zasadę podwójnego skutku, np. wtedy, kiedy lekarz przeprowadza operację kraniotomii. Istotą tak zdefiniowanego problemu bliskości jest pytanie o możliwe kryterium, które pozwoliłoby określić, które ze skutków działania mieszczą się w zamierzeniu, a które są jedynie przewidywane. Punktem wyjścia prowadzonych w artykule analiz problemu bliskości będzie sposób, w jaki postawiła go w swoim artykule Foot. W drugiej, najobszerniejszej części artykułu zostanie przytoczonych szereg współczesnych prób rozstrzygnięcia problemu bliskości, trzecia natomiast jest próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie, dlaczego dyskusja nad problemem bliskości zdaje się tkwić w martwym punkcie.
That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring ...States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse.
How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled ...times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry.
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