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title	:	Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust : A Study in the Ethics of Character
author	:	Jones, David H.
publisher	:	Rowman & Littlefield
isbn10 | asin	:	0847692663
print isbn13	:	9780847692668
ebook isbn13	:	9780585122014
language	:	English
subject	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	D804.3.J66 1999eb
ddc	:	940.53/18
subject	:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Page iii Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust A Study in the Ethics of Character David H. Jones ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham Boulder New York Oxford

Page iv ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 12 Hid's Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ, England Copyright 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jones, David H., 1930 Moral responsibility in the Holocaust: a study in the ethics of character/David H. Jones p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8476-9266-3 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8476-9267-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title. D804.3.J66 1999 940.53'18 dc21 98-48271 CIP Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part 1 The Ethics of Responsibility 1 Moral Responsibility 15 2 Moral Character: Virtues and Vices 33 3 Excuses 63 4 Self-Deception 79 Part 2 Application of the Ethics of Responsibility to Problems Raised by the Holocaust 5 Political Culture, Socialization, and Responsibility 99 6 The Principal Perpetrator: Adolf Hitler 121 7 Perpetrators: The Men in Police Battalions 145 8 Victims 171 9 Helpers, Rescuers, and Bystanders 199 Conclusion 229 Index 245 About the Author 257

Page ix PREFACE The idea for writing a book about moral responsibility in the Holocaust grew out of my experience teaching a philosophy course on the Holocaust for over a decade at The College of William and Mary. The course focuses on issues of responsibility raised by what people did or failed to do in the course of the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish question" in Germany and throughout German-occupied Europe. The very first time I taught the course, I realized that the relevant philosophic materials on responsibility were widely scattered in the literature in various disciplines such as ethics, philosophy of law, and psychology. Not only was it difficult to bring these diverse materials together and synthesize them into a coherent theory of responsibility, only a few of them were addressed to the particular problems raised by the Holocaust. Consequently, in order to provide my students with a workable theory of moral responsibility that they could apply directly to these problems, I found myself writing longer and longer handouts on topics such as the basic concepts of responsibility (praise, blame, excuses, justifications, liability to punishment, etc.), virtues and vices, and self-deception, illustrating how these concepts are applied by using examples drawn from the Holocaust. These handouts evolved into the chapters in part 1 of this book.

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