Monroe The Hand of Compassion

Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4957-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Monroe, Kristen Renwick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv

Stories That Are True 1

CHAPTER ONE: Margot 9

CHAPTER TWO: Otto 55

CHAPTER THREE: John 101

CHAPTER FOUR: Irene 139

CHAPTER FIVE: Knud 165

CHAPTER SIX: The Complexity of the Moral Life and: the Power of Identity to Influence Choice 187

CHAPTER SEVEN: How Identity and Perspective Led to Moral Choice 211

CHAPTER EIGHT: What Makes People Help Others: Constructing Moral Theory 239

A Different Way of Seeing Things 257

APPENDIX A: Narratives as Windows on the Minds of Others 267

APPENDIX B: Finding the Rescuers 287

NOTES 291

BIBLIOGRAPHY 331

INDEX 355

Über Autor(innen)

Kristen Renwick Monroe is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. Her books include the prize-winning The Heart of Altruism (Princeton).