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.
- | Author: Elizabeth Minnich
- | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
- | ISBN-10: 1442275952
- | ISBN-13: 9781442275959