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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... emotionally affected by their misfortunes . Equally , they rejected Hobbes's pessimistic picture of natural man and Hobbes's claim in Leviathan that without strong authority the natural passions lead to the " warre of all against all ...
... emotionally affected by their misfortunes . Equally , they rejected Hobbes's pessimistic picture of natural man and Hobbes's claim in Leviathan that without strong authority the natural passions lead to the " warre of all against all ...
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... emotion which we feel for the misery of others , when we either see it , or are made to conceive it in a very lively ... Emotional separateness and distance , prevalent in market society , thus enable members of civil society to form a ...
... emotion which we feel for the misery of others , when we either see it , or are made to conceive it in a very lively ... Emotional separateness and distance , prevalent in market society , thus enable members of civil society to form a ...
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... emotional and moral power . Gertrude Himmelfarb ( 1991 , 5-6 ) distinguishes between two forms of compassion : " sen- timental " and " unsentimental , " the latter being " compassion properly understood . " She defines " sentimental ...
... emotional and moral power . Gertrude Himmelfarb ( 1991 , 5-6 ) distinguishes between two forms of compassion : " sen- timental " and " unsentimental , " the latter being " compassion properly understood . " She defines " sentimental ...
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... emotionally governed activity can con- tribute to our assessment of this activity's being moral : To be beneficent , that is , to promote according to one's means the happiness of oth- ers in need , without hoping for something in ...
... emotionally governed activity can con- tribute to our assessment of this activity's being moral : To be beneficent , that is , to promote according to one's means the happiness of oth- ers in need , without hoping for something in ...
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... emotions , a sentiment identified with " femaleness " and detrimental to the ancients ' concern with timeless justice as the basis of moral virtue . Compassion and pity were seen as the loss of moral The Sociology of Public Compassion 19.
... emotions , a sentiment identified with " femaleness " and detrimental to the ancients ' concern with timeless justice as the basis of moral virtue . Compassion and pity were seen as the loss of moral The Sociology of Public Compassion 19.
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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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