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Beautiful Souls

Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

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On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain defies a law preventing Jewish refugees from entering his country. A Serb in war-torn Vukovar later risks his career to save Croats, while during the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's elite military unit refuses to serve in occupied territories. Fifty years after Hannah Arendt's analysis of conformity in the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls delves into the motivations behind ordinary individuals who resist authority and societal norms. Through compelling narratives of unlikely resisters confronted with moral dilemmas, Eyal Press illustrates that significant acts of dissent often come from those who passionately uphold their convictions rather than from radicals aiming to dismantle the system. The book incorporates insights from moral psychology and neuroscience, culminating in the account of a whistleblower in the financial industry who loses her job for rejecting a misleadingly advertised toxic product. Amid economic turmoil and political strife, this deeply reported narrative journalism explores the choices we face when our principles clash with our loyalties and obligations.

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Beautiful Souls, Eyal Press

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Tytuł
Beautiful Souls
Podtytuł
Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
Język
angielski
Autorzy
Eyal Press
Rok wydania
2012
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
183
ISBN10
0374143420
ISBN13
9780374143428
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Ocena
3,8 z 5
Opis
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain defies a law preventing Jewish refugees from entering his country. A Serb in war-torn Vukovar later risks his career to save Croats, while during the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's elite military unit refuses to serve in occupied territories. Fifty years after Hannah Arendt's analysis of conformity in the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls delves into the motivations behind ordinary individuals who resist authority and societal norms. Through compelling narratives of unlikely resisters confronted with moral dilemmas, Eyal Press illustrates that significant acts of dissent often come from those who passionately uphold their convictions rather than from radicals aiming to dismantle the system. The book incorporates insights from moral psychology and neuroscience, culminating in the account of a whistleblower in the financial industry who loses her job for rejecting a misleadingly advertised toxic product. Amid economic turmoil and political strife, this deeply reported narrative journalism explores the choices we face when our principles clash with our loyalties and obligations.