The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern SocietyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 20/12/2000 - 144 من الصفحات The argument of this book is that it is in the nature of modernity to foster compassion. Most critics tend to think of modernity as corrosive of moral sentiments. They see clearly the way in which modernity breaks down older social bonds, but they are much less attentive to the ways in which it also builds new ones. This book offers an historically informed corrective to this common view. Sznaider demonstrates that compassion, understood as the organized campaign to lessen the suffering of strangers, is a distinctly modern form of morality. It played an important role in the rise of modern society, and it continues to play an important role today. And when waves of compassion break out into demands for political action, these demands need to be understood rather than criticized as excuses or irrelevancies. Incorporating and critiquing the work of Arendt, Foucault, and other social theorists, this book is both erudite and historically rich—sure to be both controversial and influential among those who debate modernity, morality, and social justice. |
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... duty to ameliorate it seems like it should be a very old notion but is in fact a very recent one . There is a big dis- tance between a duty that once bound saints and one that is now considered in- cumbent on all reasonable people . So ...
... duty to ameliorate it seems like it should be a very old notion but is in fact a very recent one . There is a big dis- tance between a duty that once bound saints and one that is now considered in- cumbent on all reasonable people . So ...
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... duty and has therefore no guiding sense of proportion . Both writers , in their rejection of compassion , evoke Kant as a guide to moral conduct . Kant rejected compassion on the grounds that feelings , unlike reason , have no ...
... duty and has therefore no guiding sense of proportion . Both writers , in their rejection of compassion , evoke Kant as a guide to moral conduct . Kant rejected compassion on the grounds that feelings , unlike reason , have no ...
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... duties or fundamental rights as a guidepost for moral conduct focus almost exclusively on the individual . There has been increasing criticism of such individual - based moral theories from a group of social philoso- phers who seek to ...
... duties or fundamental rights as a guidepost for moral conduct focus almost exclusively on the individual . There has been increasing criticism of such individual - based moral theories from a group of social philoso- phers who seek to ...
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... Where do these debates , centered around questions of moral relativism versus moral absolutism , duty versus inclination , reason versus sentiment , leave the sociologist interested in the sociology of moral conduct ? Does 20 Chapter One.
... Where do these debates , centered around questions of moral relativism versus moral absolutism , duty versus inclination , reason versus sentiment , leave the sociologist interested in the sociology of moral conduct ? Does 20 Chapter One.
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... duty - based ethics . Schopenhauer held that compassion is the mainspring of morality and also suggested that it should be studied empirically , a project Durkheim tried to undertake ( see Mestrovic 1993 , 1997 ) on Schopenhauer , but ...
... duty - based ethics . Schopenhauer held that compassion is the mainspring of morality and also suggested that it should be studied empirically , a project Durkheim tried to undertake ( see Mestrovic 1993 , 1997 ) on Schopenhauer , but ...
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Cruelty to Children | 45 |
Democracy and Child Welfare | 61 |
The Universalization of Compassion | 83 |
Conclusion | 99 |
Bibliography | 105 |
Index | 123 |
About the Author | 129 |
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