Book contents
- Just Following Orders
- Just Following Orders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Understanding Genocide as a Means to Prevention
- Chapter 1 Listening to the Perpetrators of Genocide
- Chapter 2 A Brief History of the Experimental Research on Obedience
- Chapter 3 How Do We Take Ownership over and Responsibility for Our Own Actions?
- Chapter 4 Moral Emotions under Obedience
- Chapter 5 Just Giving Orders? In the Brains of Those Who Command
- Chapter 6 Desolation Is Everywhere
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: How Ordinary People Stand Up against Immorality
- Epilogue: A Hopeful Horizon
- References
- Index
Epilogue: A Hopeful Horizon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2024
- Just Following Orders
- Just Following Orders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Understanding Genocide as a Means to Prevention
- Chapter 1 Listening to the Perpetrators of Genocide
- Chapter 2 A Brief History of the Experimental Research on Obedience
- Chapter 3 How Do We Take Ownership over and Responsibility for Our Own Actions?
- Chapter 4 Moral Emotions under Obedience
- Chapter 5 Just Giving Orders? In the Brains of Those Who Command
- Chapter 6 Desolation Is Everywhere
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: How Ordinary People Stand Up against Immorality
- Epilogue: A Hopeful Horizon
- References
- Index
Summary
Recently, while listening to the radio, I have rediscovered a French song, “Né en 17 à Leidenstadt” (“Born in 17 in Leidenstadt”) by the singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. I hadn’t heard this song since I was a child and, at that time, I certainly did not understand its meaning.
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- Just Following OrdersAtrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience, pp. 220 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024