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Jonathan Glover

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December 30, 1941

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Jonathan Glover (born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his studies on bioethics. He was educated in Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London. Glover is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in the United States.

In Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, published in 1999, Glover makes the case for Applied Ethics. He examines the various types of atrocity that were perpetrated in the 20th century and considers what sort of bulwarks there could be against them. He allows that religion has provided bulwarks, which are getting eroded. He ident ...more

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	Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century 4.28 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Causing Death and Saving Lives 3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) 3.62 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humanity: the Recent Moral History 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Sort of People Should There Be? 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utilitarianism and Its Critics 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Glover, Jonathan (2001) Paperback it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.”
― Jonathan Glover, Causing Death and Saving Lives

tags: autonomy, freedom, freedom-of-thought, manipulation

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“A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

tags: atomic-bomb, hiroshima, killing, morality, responsibility

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“Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his.”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

tags: atomic-bomb, hiroshima, killing, morality, responsibiliya

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