Focusing on the brutal acts of the 20th century--from the Holocaust to Hiroshima--the author looks at the politics of the times and the roots of human nature to attempt to explain why so many atrocities were perpetuated and how the social environment can be changed to prevent their recurrence.
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Focusing on the brutal acts of the 20th century--from the Holocaust to Hiroshima--the author looks at the politics of the times and the roots of human nature to attempt to explain why so many atrocities were perpetuated and how the social environment can be changed to prevent their recurrence.
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This book is a great view of what morals push us to do in situations. Jonathan Glover brings up many issues that are very important to us now and many historical issues and relates what brings those about to our moral standings.
Great book, well written, and I'd recommend this book any day
kevmac
Apr 16, 2009
brilliant in its analysis
Though Mr. Glover doesn't seem to make much of an attempt at his stated goal for his book--to begin to create an empirical approach to ethics--he brilliantly analyzes the psychologies that led to some of the most atrocious human calamities of the twentieth century. He provides us with a good opportunity to recognize those psychologies and avoid such calamities in the future.
