Our fractured and divided world, with its culture wars, reflects the absence of values capable of enabling the evolution of human civilization. In our modern world, some secularists have come to believe that eradication of religion is the key to improving the well-being of humanity and a few express their opposition forthrightly, as Bertrand Russell has done in his book, Why I Am Not a Christian. Recently three more cogent arguments for atheism have appeared: Christopher Hitchens’ book: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything; Richard Dawkins’ book: The God Delusion; and Sam Harris’s book: The End of Faith. In this book, Edgar Eckfeldt persuasively argues that they are dead wrong.
Samuel P. Oliner's exploration of The Nature of Good and Evil is informed by his grasp of history, his mastery of sociology and the authority of his own experience as one who as a young child of the Holocaust experienced the nature of both good and evil when he was rescued by a Polish non-Jew at the risk of her life. In this work, by concentrating on the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, Oliner has further solidified his well deserved reputation as a scholar of insight and discernment into an area often left to philosophers and theologians and he has enriched our vocabulary to comprehend both good and evil while enlarging our moral imagination. A valuable contribution to the field, an even more valuable contribution to moral discourse in our age of atrocity, he allows us to Understand the Many Faces of Moral and Immoral Human Behavior.--Michael Berenbaum
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“On the theoretical issue of our pluralistic age–whether we can continue to believe in absolute value–Robert Kane has written the most helpful discussion I know.
“An extreme1y practical book which should prove helpful to many philosophy professors.”–Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame What are the philosophical foundations of moral life? Randolph Feezell and Curtis Hancock seek the answer In a series of fascinating fictional dialogues.
“Ethics After the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques and Response is one of the most important books on the moral and ethical implications of the Holocaust to appear in years.
Choice, April 2003
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A Valuable Primer on Genocide
“Will Genocide Ever End? is a valuable primer in the terrible and persistent problem of genocide in human society.
For centuries, popular writers and respected scholars have written about and analyzed the phenomenon of love without exhausting its potential for contemporary debate.
“Provides both an introduction and survey of the immensely important field of genetics and the global problems–scientific, cultural, political, and moral that are coming from these developments The conclusions are ones of caution, urgency, and intelligent search for responsibility.
“...very well written...works well at involving the reader and moving the reader.” –Canadian Philosophical Reviews An interesting introduction
“Interesting introduction to Western moral thought” –Teaching Philosophy Lively and relevent
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“This is an important book, a high hurdle for the soft-minded. In clean prose and clear arguments, Patrick Burke makes a formidable case that much of what is done today in the name of compassion and good intentions causes harm.
