Book 1997

Facing the Extreme

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Publisher: Owl Books
Language: English
Published: 1997

The Holocaust
Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophy
History - General History
Holocaust
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Concentration camps
Totalitarianism

An examination of the human capacity for moral life; reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Also offers an elequent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality.