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Cruelty : human evil and the human brain /
"Cruelty is an uncomfortable subject. Reading of the horrors of the Nazi death camps and the genocides of Rwanda, seeing news reports of young children being beaten and starved to death, we are repelled and horrified. The people doing these acts must surely be evil monsters, utterly different f...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : cruelty in context
- What is cruelty?
- Quis judicat? : who decides?
- Why does cruelty exist?
- How do we come to act?
- How do we come to feel?
- How do we come to believe?
- Why are we callous?
- Why does sadism exist?
- Can we stop being cruel?