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This 7 page paper considers the theories of personalist John MacMurray in relations to the Jewish holocaust. The author contends that not only did the Jews suffer this crisis, so too did the Nazis. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Personalists like John MacMurray study the relationships that emerge in the state of being a purpose, in internal aspects of that
state and in the external aspects of that state. MacMurray (1998) emphasizes that we each are valuable as human beings simply because we exist. Our value is not
limited by the degree we contribute to society or even to our talents and achievements (MacMurray, 1998). Our value lies in the ontological significance of our being (MacMurray, 1998).
Never-the-less, our being is tied not just to our own inner qualities but also to the social network that we maintain (MacMurray, 1998).
Community, in fact, is a critical element in personalist theory. MacMurray (1998) insists that studying the person only from an egocentric perspective is to fail at
truly understanding that person. We each exist in relation to others about us and, even when calculated attempts to depersonalize us are made, we can survive thanks to those
relationships. It can be contended that this was precisely what occurred during the horrors of the World War II and, in particular, the Nazi occupation, the Jewish ghettos and
the concentration camps where Jews were either killed or interred for the length of the war. It was not just the Jews, however, that experienced what MacMurray (1998) would
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