Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century  9958

  1. Never Such Innocence Again

Part I: Ethics Without the Moral Law

  1. Nietzsche’s Challenge
  2. Self-interest as a Restraint
  3. The Moral Resources: Humanity
  4. The Moral Resources: Moral Identity
  5. The Festival of Cruelty
  6. Answering Nietzsche

Part II: The Moral Psychology of Waging War

  1. Close Combat
  2. The Case of My Lai
  3. The Shift to Killing at a Distance
  4. Bombing
  5. Hiroshima
  6. War and the Moral Resources

Part III: Tribalism

  1. Rwanda
  2. The Tribal Trap
  3. The Political Containment of Tribalism
  4. The Roots of Tribal Conflict
  5. The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves

Part IV: War as a Trap

  1. The Trap of the Trenches
  2. The Home Front
  3. The Stone Has Started to Roll: 1914
  4. Sliding Out of the Trap: 1962
  5. Ways Out

Part V: Belief and Terror: Stalin and His Heirs

  1. In Those Years
  2. The Trap of Terror
  3. Belief: Ends and Means
  4. Stalinism and the Moral Resources
  5. The Working of the Belief System
  6. Stalinism, Truth and Moral Identity
  7. Mao’s Utopian Project
  8. Overturning the Basket: Cambodia
  9. Utopia and Belief

Part VI: The Will to Create Mankind Anew: The Nazi Experiment

  1. The Core of Nazism
  2. Obedience and Conformity
  3. The Attack on Humanity
  4. The Erosion of Moral Identity
  5. The Nazi Moral Identity
  6. The Willingness to Believe
  7. Philosophers
  8. Bystanders
  9. Interpreting the Nazi Episode

Part VII: On the Recent Moral History of Humanity

  1. Some People and Not Others
  2. Ethics Humanized
  • Epilogue: The Past Alive in the Present
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