Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Academic Philosophers and the Holocaust

Historian Michael Burleigh writing in Moral Combat: A History of World War II:

Businessmen, peasants, monks, nuns, and priests did a great deal more rescuing [of Jews during the Holocaust] than academic philosophers, of whom history has recorded not a single example of altruism in this era, although they do a lot of writing on these subjects.

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