He begins by describing the importance of obedience and how it is so powerful that it can overthrow a person’s demeanor and their values on life. In order to understand the effects of authority on others, such as the ones on the Jews in Nazi Germany, Milgram constructs an experiment in order to examine how much pain a regular person would inflict on another person because they were authorized to do so. This will create some sort of conflict between the authority and the subject’s upstanding imperatives against hurting others.
He begins by describing the importance of obedience and how it is so powerful that it can overthrow a person’s demeanor and their values on life. In order to understand the effects of authority on others, such as the ones on the Jews in Nazi Germany, Milgram constructs an experiment in order to examine how much pain a regular person would inflict on another person because they were authorized to do so. This will create some sort of conflict between the authority and the subject’s upstanding imperatives against hurting others.