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(2005) Genocide and human rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
When I mentioned to a colleague from the social sciences that I would be developing a course in philosophy and the Holocaust, he responded by suggesting that it should be easy to design such a course given the enormous impact that the Holocaust must have had on the field of philosophy, especially ethics. Indeed, he proposed that the course focus on ethics after the Holocaust, emphasizing the major changes in ethical theories that have resulted from an awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust. I am sorry to confess that my first response to my colleague's suggestion was to laugh. As a scholar outside of the field who has a great respect for philosophy, my colleague simply assumed that an event as devastating as the Holocaust must have had a profound effect on moral philosophy. Wouldn't all ethicists, he assumed, feel the need to respond to the murder of millions and the calculated attempt to extinguish European Jewry in its entirety?
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Lee, S. H. (2005)., Rights, morality, and faith in the light of the Holocaust, in J. K. Roth (ed.), Genocide and human rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 18-28.
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