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Loading... The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1969)by Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James, Cargas, Bonny V. Fetterman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This feels, in the worst possible way, like reading a class full of opinion essays in a 101 level seminar. Conceptually fascinating but an absolute letdown. I read this book for one of my philosophy classes. This book poses a very interesting ethical dilemma: As a prisoner in a concentration camp, do you forgive a dying SS solider? This book offers numerous responses to this question. Some were a bit repetitive. Some didn't really answer the question at all. But some were really thought provoking. A dying Nazi soldier has Simon Wiesenthal, a concentration camp inmate, brought to him so that he can be forgiven for his part in a horrible massacre. This updated version of Wiesenthal's earlier book has more responses from people of many faiths and countries. Personally, I don't think you can give absolution to someone unless the sin, or in this case, the atrocity, was done to you. But read it to hear what other people have to say about this particular instance and the problem of evil in general. no reviews | add a review
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to-and obtain absolution from-a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia, China, and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising and always thought-provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion, and human responsibility. No library descriptions found. |
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