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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الصفحة 8
... reconstruct compassion as part of the cultural value system of modernity , seeing how it can be grounded in real - life experiences of social individual actors . DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET To this point , two broad 8 Chapter One.
... reconstruct compassion as part of the cultural value system of modernity , seeing how it can be grounded in real - life experiences of social individual actors . DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET To this point , two broad 8 Chapter One.
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... individual and social welfare . " The man of feeling " became a new moral hero . Four principal aspects of latitudinarian ethical thinking are impor- tant to note here : virtue as universal benevolence ; benevolence as feeling ; benevo ...
... individual and social welfare . " The man of feeling " became a new moral hero . Four principal aspects of latitudinarian ethical thinking are impor- tant to note here : virtue as universal benevolence ; benevolence as feeling ; benevo ...
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... individuals and is therefore consistent with market society . Smith emphasizes the self - love of humankind in what he calls commercial society . People who were previously indifferent to each other can enter now into contractual market ...
... individuals and is therefore consistent with market society . Smith emphasizes the self - love of humankind in what he calls commercial society . People who were previously indifferent to each other can enter now into contractual market ...
الصفحة 16
... individual self is crucial for the emergence of moral sentiments . Here Smith broke with the dominant tradition in ... individuals . One of the consequences of this view of com- passion as " benevolent sympathy " in nineteenth - century ...
... individual self is crucial for the emergence of moral sentiments . Here Smith broke with the dominant tradition in ... individuals . One of the consequences of this view of com- passion as " benevolent sympathy " in nineteenth - century ...
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... individual in civil society is primarily concerned with his own well - being ? " Was a new form of compassion possible given the assumption of self - interested individuals ? Persons in modern civil so- ciety were transformed ...
... individual in civil society is primarily concerned with his own well - being ? " Was a new form of compassion possible given the assumption of self - interested individuals ? Persons in modern civil so- ciety were transformed ...
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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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