Humanity : a moral history of the twentieth century /
Jonathan Glover.
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2000.
- xiv, 464 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Never Such Innocence Again. Pt. 1. Ethics Without the Moral Law : 2. Nietzsche's Challenge -- 3. Self-interest as a Restraint -- 4. The Moral Resources: Humanity -- 5. The Moral Resources: Moral Identity -- 6. The Festival of Cruelty -- 7. Answering Nietzsche. Pt. 2. The Moral Psychology of Waging War : 8. Close Combat -- 9. The Case of My Lai -- 10. The Shift to Killing at a Distance -- 11. Bombing -- 12. Hiroshima -- 13. War and the Moral Resources. Pt. 3. Tribalism : 14. Rwanda -- 15. The Tribal Trap -- 16. The Political Containment of Tribalism -- 17. The Roots of Tribal Conflict -- 18. The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves. Pt. 4. War as a Trap : 19. The Trap of the Trenches -- 20. The Home Front -- 21. The Stone Has Started to Roll: 1914 -- 22. Sliding Out of the Trap: 1962 -- 23. Ways Out. Pt. 5. Belief and Terror: Stalin and his Heirs : 24. In Those Years -- 25. The Trap of Terror -- 26. Belief: Ends and Means -- 27. Stalinism and the Moral Resources -- 28. The Working of the Belief System -- 29. Stalinism, Truth and Moral Identity -- 30. Mao's Utopian Project -- 31. Overturning the Basket: Cambodia -- 32. Utopia and Belief. Pt. 6. The Will to Create Mankind Anew: The Nazi Experiment : 33. The Core of Nazism -- 34. Obedience and Conformity -- 35. The Attack on Humanity -- 36. The Erosion of Moral Identity -- 37. The Nazi Moral Identity -- 38. The Willingness to Believe -- 39. Philosophers -- 40. Bystanders -- 41. Interpreting the Nazi Episode. Pt. 7. On the Recent Moral History of Humanity : 42. Some People and Not Others -- 43. Ethics Humanized. Epilogue: The Past Alive in the Present.