- 168 pages
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About this book
What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities - and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge about ordinary behavior can empower us to take charge of our own direction, and help us turn away from beguilings of evil when they come our way.
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Table of contents
- Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary
- Evil Defined
- Look at Evil Behaviorally
- Is Evil Real?
- Who Produces Extraordinary Evil?
- Overview of the Book
- Confronting Evil and its Paradoxes
- Arendt's View of Eichmann
- Is a Dispassionate Study of Evil Possible?
- The Desire to Ignore Evil
- People May Deliberately Engage in Evil Activities
- 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work
- Incremental Processes
- Packages and Riders
- The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens
- 3. Some Faces of Evil
- A Humane American Physician
- An SS Physician
- A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp
- My Lai
- 4. Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil
- A Fable About the Two Research-Minded Physicians
- Raoul Wallenberg and Rudolf Hoess Revisited
- The Compelling Power of Immediacy and Extricating Oneself from Taking Part in Evil
- Another Look at the Five Paradoxes: Some Answers, Some New Questions, Some Hope
- The Larger Picture
- Notes
- References
- Index