{"id":429,"date":"2020-11-05T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/?p=429"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:12:55","slug":"ethics-of-national-socialism-a-contribution-to-understanding-national-socialist-moral-justifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/2020\/11\/05\/ethics-of-national-socialism-a-contribution-to-understanding-national-socialist-moral-justifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics of National Socialism &#8211; a contribution to understanding National Socialist moral justifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If one wants to understand how the crimes\n of National Socialism were possible, it makes sense to look at the \nmoral reasons that shaped the normative self-image of the acting actors.\n This topic is explored in the annotated volume of sources &#8222;Supposed \nReasons &#8211; Ethics and Ethics in National Socialism&#8220;, which now presents \nfor the first time a biographically contextualized selection of texts by\n academic moral philosophers who distinguished themselves particularly \nin the &#8222;Drittes Reich&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volume &#8222;Vermeintliche Gr\u00fcnde. Ethics  and Ethics in National Socialism&#8220;&nbsp;was extensively commented and edited  by Werner Konitzer, Johanna Bach, Jonas Balzer and David Palme (PhD  student at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the  University of Erfurt). Dealing with the moral justifications of the  perpetrators, who regarded their actions as &#8222;good&#8220;, &#8222;right&#8220; or  &#8222;necessary&#8220;, helps to better understand the connection between normative  self-image and the crimes of National Socialism. In addition, the book  enables a differentiated view of the development of moral philosophy  after 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campus.de\/buecher-campus-verlag\/wissenschaft\/geschichte\/vermeintliche_gruende-15355.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Here (\u00f6ffnet in neuem Tab)\">Here<\/a> you can find more information about the volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one wants to understand how the crimes of National Socialism were possible, it makes sense to look at the moral reasons that shaped the normative self-image of the acting actors. This topic is explored in the annotated volume of sources &#8222;Supposed Reasons &#8211; Ethics and Ethics in National Socialism&#8220;, which now presents for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/2020\/11\/05\/ethics-of-national-socialism-a-contribution-to-understanding-national-socialist-moral-justifications\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8222;Ethics of National Socialism &#8211; a contribution to understanding National Socialist moral justifications&#8220; <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[495,243,494],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}