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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... one's friends and to innumerable authors . But to pay the intellectual debts incurred by this particular book I think a shorter list will suffice . First and foremost comes Allan Silver . This book started as a dissertation un- der his ...
... one's friends and to innumerable authors . But to pay the intellectual debts incurred by this particular book I think a shorter list will suffice . First and foremost comes Allan Silver . This book started as a dissertation un- der his ...
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... one's own ends . In a typical statement the romantic Marx re- marked : The bourgeoisie , wherever it has got the upper hand , has put an end to all feudal , patriarchal , idyllic relations . It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley ...
... one's own ends . In a typical statement the romantic Marx re- marked : The bourgeoisie , wherever it has got the upper hand , has put an end to all feudal , patriarchal , idyllic relations . It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley ...
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... one's own experience of suf- fering as points of departure . Emotional separateness and distance , essential to individualism , are constitutive of fellow feeling , as distinct from agape and caritas . Emotional separateness and ...
... one's own experience of suf- fering as points of departure . Emotional separateness and distance , essential to individualism , are constitutive of fellow feeling , as distinct from agape and caritas . Emotional separateness and ...
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... one's ' best self ' and to the ' common good ' that includes one's own good , " she argues against a teaching of compassion that never existed : all teach- ers of compassion since Rousseau and Smith have agreed that the self is the ...
... one's ' best self ' and to the ' common good ' that includes one's own good , " she argues against a teaching of compassion that never existed : all teach- ers of compassion since Rousseau and Smith have agreed that the self is the ...
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... one's own weaknesses and potential liability to misfortune . Democratic compassion , there- fore , does not require us to identify with a common set of values and social ends . But it does secure conditions in which others as moral ...
... one's own weaknesses and potential liability to misfortune . Democratic compassion , there- fore , does not require us to identify with a common set of values and social ends . But it does secure conditions in which others as moral ...
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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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