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Submission to Authority: A Scientific View of Power and Morality

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Submission to Authority: A Scientific View of Power and Morality
6.99 €
What is a good citizen capable of doing when he obeys an order? Reflecting on the tens of thousands of people in Nazi Germany who sent their own kind to their deaths simply in the line of duty, Stanley Milgram thought of a provocative experiment. The behavior of the subjects during different variations of the experiment invariably confirmed Milgram's dire conjectures: some test participants severely "punished" others without exercising their right to refuse.
The paradox is that the virtues of loyalty, discipline, and self-sacrifice that we value so much in human beings bind people to the most inhumane systems of power. But human nature has not changed since the Nazi death camps. That is why the relevance of the concept, which the experiment confirms with frightening conviction, can be disputed, but it is dangerous to underestimate. Milgram's famous experiment, which at first caused many to protest and distrust it, was later recognized as one of the most morally significant studies in psychology.
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