Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments
Raphaël Künstler
Abstract:I argue here that the theoretically central aspect of Stanley Milgram’s “experiments on obedience to authority” continues to elude main current commentators because it does not fit into the current paradigm of Milgram’s studies: the presentation and the justification of a set of rules to the subjects. I argue that taking this fact into account radically changes the interpretation of the subjects’ conduct: they are not submitting to an authority, they are not obeying orders, but they are applying a justified ru… Show more
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