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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... infliction of suffer- ing without the old justification for it , and compassion in organized form a pub- lic response to this evil . In the end , political action was not simply a reaction to social problems - it " created " the ...
... infliction of suffer- ing without the old justification for it , and compassion in organized form a pub- lic response to this evil . In the end , political action was not simply a reaction to social problems - it " created " the ...
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... infliction of suffering without the old justifications for it , and compassion in organized form a public response to this evil . For example , public executions , torture , and sla- very came under moral scrutiny . Why , then , did ...
... infliction of suffering without the old justifications for it , and compassion in organized form a public response to this evil . For example , public executions , torture , and sla- very came under moral scrutiny . Why , then , did ...
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... infliction of pain . Modern humanitarianism protests against such suffering and pain . In its philanthropic version , it tried to establish bonds of compassion among social groups and classes . People's relationship to 25 Chapter 2 ...
... infliction of pain . Modern humanitarianism protests against such suffering and pain . In its philanthropic version , it tried to establish bonds of compassion among social groups and classes . People's relationship to 25 Chapter 2 ...
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... inflicted pain were not understood as " cruel " in the modern sense . The modern concept of " cruelty " as ... inflicting physical suffering on transgressors . Torture was part of the le- gal procedure in the majority of European states ...
... inflicted pain were not understood as " cruel " in the modern sense . The modern concept of " cruelty " as ... inflicting physical suffering on transgressors . Torture was part of the le- gal procedure in the majority of European states ...
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... inflicting of suffering on another , cruelty and the experience of pain became prototypical objects of the fight against it , whether in medicine or in the reform of the criminal justice system . ( For medicine , see Pernick 1985 ; for ...
... inflicting of suffering on another , cruelty and the experience of pain became prototypical objects of the fight against it , whether in medicine or in the reform of the criminal justice system . ( For medicine , see Pernick 1985 ; for ...
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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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