Description |
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Asking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils-genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation-the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples. The author, a moral philosopher, draws also on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, pop culture. Reversing Arendt's banality of evil, she finds that mind-deadening banality, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Banality (Philosophy)
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Banality (Philosophy) |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Thought and thinking.
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Thought and thinking. |
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ethics (philosophy) |
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thinking. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck. Evil of banality. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016 9781442275959 (DLC) 2016044739 |
ISBN |
9781442275973 (electronic book) |
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1442275979 (electronic book) |
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9781442275959 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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