TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monroe,Kristen R.
AU  - Lampros-Monroe,Chloe
AU  - Pellecchia,Jonah Robnett
TI  - A darkling plain: stories of conflict and humanity during war
SN  - 9781107690172
AV  - U22 
U1  - 303.6/6 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
KW  - War
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Humanity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Class of Spring 2018
KW  - Dirk Ippen Fellow
KW  - Fellow
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index
N2  - "How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because of the overwhelming aspect of war. The generally accepted wisdom is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting us against one another. "War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, and even wars clearly designated "just" nonetheless inflict massive destruction and cruelty. Since ethics is concerned with discovering what takes us to a morally superior place, one conducive to human flourishing and happiness, studying what helps people survive wartime trauma becomes an extremely valuable enterprise. A Darkling Plain thus fills an important scholarly void, analyzing wartime stories that reveal much about our capacity to process trauma, heal wounds, reclaim lost spirits, and derive meaning and purpose from the most horrific of personal events"--
ER  -