The hand of compassion : portraits of moral choice during the Holocaust / / Kristen Renwick Monroe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453594103321
• Autore: Monroe Kristen R. <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• ISBN: 0-691-11863-9; 1-4008-4957-8
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Disciplina: 172/.1
• Soggetti: Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Moral and ethical aspects; Altruism - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-353) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Stories That Are True -- 1. Margot -- 2. Otto -- 3. John -- 4. Irene -- 5. Knud -- 6. The Complexity of the Moral Life and the Power of Identity to Influence Choice -- 7. How Identity and Perspective Led to Moral Choice -- 8. What Makes People Help Others: Constructing Moral Theory -- A Different Way of Seeing Things -- APPENDIX A. Narratives as Windows on the Minds of Others -- APPENDIX B. Finding the Rescuers -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, for them, literally unimaginable. In the words of one German Czech rescuer, "The hand of compassion was faster than the calculus of reason." At the heart of this unusual book ; are interviews with the rescuers, complex human beings from all parts of the Third Reich and all walks of life: Margot, a wealthy German who saved Jews while in exile in Holland; Otto, a German living in Prague who saved more than 100 Jews and provides surprising information about the plot to kill Hitler; John, a Dutchman on the Gestapo's "Most Wanted List"; Irene, a Polish student who hid eighteen Jews in the home of the German major for whom she was keeping house; and Knud, a Danish wartime policeman who took part in the extraordinary rescue of 85 percent of his country's Jews. We listen as the rescuers themselves tell the stories of their lives and their efforts to save Jews. Monroe's analysis of these stories draws on philosophy, ethics, and political psychology to suggest why and how identity constrains our choices, both cognitively and ethically. Her work offers a powerful counterpoint to conventional arguments about rational choice and a valuable addition to the literature on ethics and moral psychology. It is a dramatic illumination of the power of identity to shape our most basic political acts, including our treatment of others. But always Monroe returns us to the rescuers, to their strong voices, reminding us that the Holocaust need not have happened and revealing the minds of the ethically exemplary as they negotiated the moral quicksand that was the Holocaust.

Coniectanea iuris : studi sul diritto in transizione / a cura di Silvia Schiavo ed Enrico Maestri ; contributi di Gian Guido Balandi ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNICASUFE0976125
• Autore: Schiavo, Silvia <1974- >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [San Lazzaro di Savena], : Giraldi, 2012
• ISBN: 9788861554986
• Descrizione fisica: 262 p. ; 24 cm.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Lévy Matters II : Recent Progress in Theory and Applications: Fractional Lévy Fields, and Scale Functions / / by Serge Cohen, Alexey Kuznetsov, Andreas E. Kyprianou, Victor Rivero

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910438136903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 3-642-31407-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 186 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Lévy Matters, A Subseries on Lévy Processes ; ; 2061
• Altri autori (Persone): CohenSerge
• Disciplina: 510
• Soggetti: Mathematics; Probabilities; Probability Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Fractional Lévy fields -- The theory of scale functions for spectrally negative Lévy processes.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the second volume in a subseries of the Lecture Notes in ; Mathematics called Lévy Matters, which is published at irregular intervals over the years. Each volume examines a number of key topics in the theory or applications of Lévy processes and pays tribute to the state of the art of this rapidly evolving subject with special emphasis on the non-Brownian world. The expository articles in this second volume cover two important topics in the area of Lévy processes. The first article by Serge Cohen reviews the most important findings on fractional Lévy fields to date in a self-contained piece, offering a theoretical introduction as well as possible applications and simulation techniques. The second article, by Alexey Kuznetsov, Andreas E. Kyprianou, and Victor Rivero, presents an up to date account of the theory and application of scale functions for spectrally negative Lévy processes, including an extensive numerical overview.