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Author: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2009-06-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1847424090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK100 years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty, alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading thinkers, activists and commentators to identify social evils in the 21st century.
Author: Maria M. King
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pamphlet, the author addresses a number of issues contributing to problems in contemporary society, among them poor diet, prostitution, marriage and divorce, the plight of orphans, and women in prisons. She suggests, in part, that better education for women and their enfranchisement will be a part of the remedy for these social evils.
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Miller
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 080705111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "banned in Boston."
Author: Linden Brough
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-04-22
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 1446132307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA true account of a present day Vivisectionist, backed by beguiled supporters, confronting a Buddhist as the spirit of GEORGE BERNARD SHAW timelessly illuminates the lost understanding of Morality. (64 pages)
Author: T. Crook
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-25
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0230319327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
Author: Arthur G. Miller
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2016-07-04
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1462525393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This timely, accessible reference and text addresses some of the most fundamental questions about human behavior, such as what causes racism and prejudice and why good people do bad things. Leading authorities present state-of-the-science theoretical and empirical work. Essential themes include the complex interaction of individual, societal, and situational factors underpinning good or evil behavior; the role of moral emotions, unconscious bias, and the self-concept; issues of responsibility and motivation; and how technology and globalization have enabled newer forms of threat and harm. Key Words/Subject Areas: aggression, altruism, antisocial, evil, free will, good, guilt, heroism, human behavior, morality, prejudice, prosocial, racism, shame, social psychology, stereotyping, terrorism, values, violence Audience: Students and researchers in social psychology; also of interest to sociologists. "--
Author: Arthur G. Miller
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2005-04-06
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781593851941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling work brings together an array of distinguished scholars to explore key concepts, theories, and findings pertaining to some of the most fundamental issues in social life: the conditions under which people are kind and helpful to others or, conversely, under which they commit harmful, even murderous, acts. Covered are such topics as the complex interaction of individual, societal, and situational factors underpinning good or evil behavior; the role of guilt and the self-concept; and issues of responsibility and motivation, including why good people do bad things. The volume also examines whether aggression and violence are inescapable aspects of human nature, and how cooperative interaction can break down stereotyping and discrimination.
Author: Rina Lazar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1317328426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of our lives in the world? This book is an attempt to engage these questions in a new way. Written from within the complicated reality of Israel, the contributors to this book forge a collective effort to think about evil from multiple perspectives. A necessary effort, since psychoanalysis has been slow to account for the existence of evil, while philosophy and the social sciences have tended to neglect its psychological aspects. The essays collected here join to form a wide canvas on which a portrait of evil gradually emerges, from the Bible, through the enlightenment to the Holocaust; from Kant, through Freud, Klein, Bromberg and Stein to Arendt, Agamben and Bauman; using literature, history, cinema, social theory and psychoanalysis. Talking about Evil opens up a much needed space for thinking, in itself an antidote to evil. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars and students of philosophy, social theory and the humanities.
Author: Robert Meister
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0231150377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.
