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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... children , " became part of the stan- dard moral vocabulary of nineteenth - century reform . Torture was identified with inhuman practices ( Peters 1985 ) . Compassion played a formative role in the establishment of Western 16 Chapter One.
... children , " became part of the stan- dard moral vocabulary of nineteenth - century reform . Torture was identified with inhuman practices ( Peters 1985 ) . Compassion played a formative role in the establishment of Western 16 Chapter One.
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... identifying it with an overindulgence in feelings . Com- passion based on feeling cannot provide a principle when these compassionate feelings have to stop . As Kaus ( 1986 ) argues in this Kantian mode , " common interest should serve ...
... identifying it with an overindulgence in feelings . Com- passion based on feeling cannot provide a principle when these compassionate feelings have to stop . As Kaus ( 1986 ) argues in this Kantian mode , " common interest should serve ...
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... 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.
... 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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... identification is based on civic equality . Tocqueville observed the capacity in America to identify with oth- ers and extend the circle of compassion to everybody . In democracy , everybody is formally in the same moral arena . He ...
... identification is based on civic equality . Tocqueville observed the capacity in America to identify with oth- ers and extend the circle of compassion to everybody . In democracy , everybody is formally in the same moral arena . He ...
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... identified with the abolition of cruelty , which is different from secularized Christianity . Against the Kantian critics of compassion like Himmelfarb ( 1991 ) and Orwin ( 1980 ) , it can be shown that emotions are indeed rational ...
... identified with the abolition of cruelty , which is different from secularized Christianity . Against the Kantian critics of compassion like Himmelfarb ( 1991 ) and Orwin ( 1980 ) , it can be shown that emotions are indeed rational ...
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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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