Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms Explain and Constrain Mass AtrocitiesPaul Morrow
Paul Morrow, a philosopher who is currently a Human Rights Fellow at the University of Dayton, has written a much-needed study of the relationships between moral, legal, and social norms and the all-too-human, in this case genocide and other mass atrocities. His book is an extended argument against...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 489-490 |
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| Summary: | Paul Morrow, a philosopher who is currently a Human Rights Fellow at the University of Dayton, has written a much-needed study of the relationships between moral, legal, and social norms and the all-too-human, in this case genocide and other mass atrocities. His book is an extended argument against the claim that he attributes to various historians, philosophers, and social scientists that such atrocities are committed either out of a suspension of norms altogether, or an “inverted norm inversion” in which what was right before is now replaced with a murderous set of commitments and attitudes. The main argument of his book is that “mass atrocities typically reflect the presence, not the absence of norms” (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab040 |