The Holocaust

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This paper explains that the Holocaust can be conceived of as an entirely rational act. The author points out that Freud and others have posited the idea that human beings lack an internal moral compass, which is a belief that presupposes that human beings lack the capacity to determine the innate rightness or wrongness of a particular act. The paper relates that Frayn focuses on the indeterminacy of truth and suggests that the subjective nature of the truth makes any efforts to rationally arrive at universal ones.

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'There can be little doubt that the Holocaust was one of the worst - if not the worst - acts of iniquity ever carried out by human beings. Nearly six million European Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime as Hitler and his thugs attempted to wipe an entire ethnic group from the face of the earth - and many more lost family members, homes and all of their personal possessions as a result of the Nazi rampage. With that grim specter in mind, this paper confronts the fallacy of believing that enlightenment conceits or ideals - championing as they do the `rationality' of human beings - are possible in the real world."

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