Auschwitz and the Good: Some Reflections
In a recent book, Morality After Auschwitz: The Radical Challenge of the Nazi Ethic, Peter J. Haas proposes we view National Socialism not as the Incarnation of evil, but rather as a prime example of the human capacity radicallyz to reconfigure the meaning of good and evil. That reconfiguration, Haa...
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| Language: | English |
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1994
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1994, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-74 |
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| Summary: | In a recent book, Morality After Auschwitz: The Radical Challenge of the Nazi Ethic, Peter J. Haas proposes we view National Socialism not as the Incarnation of evil, but rather as a prime example of the human capacity radicallyz to reconfigure the meaning of good and evil. That reconfiguration, Haas argues, provided the basis for a distinctive ethic and morality. Taken at face value, Haas's position produces an extreme form of moral relativism, for It provides no clear way to distinguish between Nazi beliefs, about good and evil, and the moral justification of those beliefs. Put succinctly, the distinction between ethos and ethic is lost. This article attempts to present some Internal and external ways of critiquing the Nazi ethic that will provide a basis for speaking, if only tentatively, in a more inclusive fashion of good and evil, thereby avoiding the onset of terminal relativism. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/8.1.50 |