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
... historical sense of transformations in the meaning of compassion . Among modern sociologists and historians of civil society critical of this lib- eral vision , doubts about such a focus of morality have arisen . This critical vi- sion ...
... historical sense of transformations in the meaning of compassion . Among modern sociologists and historians of civil society critical of this lib- eral vision , doubts about such a focus of morality have arisen . This critical vi- sion ...
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... HISTORICAL VICISSITUDES OF COMPASSION Contrary to clichés of Gesellschaft perspectives as exemplified by Tönnies and others , market society might extend the scope of public compassion . By defin- ing a universal field of others with ...
... HISTORICAL VICISSITUDES OF COMPASSION Contrary to clichés of Gesellschaft perspectives as exemplified by Tönnies and others , market society might extend the scope of public compassion . By defin- ing a universal field of others with ...
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... historical conditions of its emergence , but seeks to answer the question of how moral sentiments can serve as a basis for a theory of social relations . What is clear from this short historical introduction is that compassion as moral ...
... historical conditions of its emergence , but seeks to answer the question of how moral sentiments can serve as a basis for a theory of social relations . What is clear from this short historical introduction is that compassion as moral ...
الصفحة 18
... historical analysis of late - Victorian political and moral re- form in England , she wants to rehabilitate the often discredited Victorian reform- ers . Furthermore , she rejects the egalitarian tendencies of the modern welfare state ...
... historical analysis of late - Victorian political and moral re- form in England , she wants to rehabilitate the often discredited Victorian reform- ers . Furthermore , she rejects the egalitarian tendencies of the modern welfare state ...
الصفحة 19
... historical particularities , the consequence of which was that the iden- tification with other people's suffering , the basis of compassion , was to become suspect as the basis of morality . Moral theories taking duties or fundamental ...
... historical particularities , the consequence of which was that the iden- tification with other people's suffering , the basis of compassion , was to become suspect as the basis of morality . Moral theories taking duties or fundamental ...
المحتوى
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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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