Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust. A Study in the Ethics of Character, David H. Jones (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), xi + 257 pp., cloth 80.00, pbk. 24.95
In this volume, Jones attempts to establish a strictly philosophical foundation for dealing with the problem of moral responsibility that arises out of an ethical analysis of the Holocaust. To those who ground their ethical reasoning and concrete moral responses in religious convictions as well as i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 112-114 |
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| Summary: | In this volume, Jones attempts to establish a strictly philosophical foundation for dealing with the problem of moral responsibility that arises out of an ethical analysis of the Holocaust. To those who ground their ethical reasoning and concrete moral responses in religious convictions as well as in philosophy, the argumentation may seem incomplete. But given the increasing heterogeneity of contemporary society, in which the language of one particular religion or secular ideology is insufficient to shape public moral discourse, Jones’s effort to develop a basis for evaluating moral responsibility on a more neutral philosophical foundation is a welcome addition to the growing body of post-Holocaust ethics literature., Jones begins with a brief overview of the book and its methodology. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcj006 |