Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Socialist Register
Angaben zur Quelle:
30 (1994) 32-59
Keywords:
Rorty, Richard
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Discusses the motives which activated individual rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, contesting the anti-universalist philosophical attitude presented by Richard Rorty in his "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity" (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Rorty alleges that parochial identifications and commitments motivated the rescuers more than universalist ideas, such as humanitarian motivation. Claims that the commentators on the relevant research literature and the rescuers point, practically in one voice, to humanitarianism as a key motive in the universalist moral outlook of the rescuers.
Note:
Appeared also in the "Journal of Applied Philosophy" 12,2 (1995) 151-173.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00130.x
URL:
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