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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... humanitarian movements are incompatible with the self - interested rationality of market society , but are " carry- over " effects from precapitalist eras or noneconomic factors constraining the market . Other critics of market society ...
... humanitarian movements are incompatible with the self - interested rationality of market society , but are " carry- over " effects from precapitalist eras or noneconomic factors constraining the market . Other critics of market society ...
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... humanitarian sensibilities are indeed part of the moral universe of market society and capitalism , it is necessary to show that these his- torically specific forms of compassion differ from earlier ones . Hannah Arendt has remarked ...
... humanitarian sensibilities are indeed part of the moral universe of market society and capitalism , it is necessary to show that these his- torically specific forms of compassion differ from earlier ones . Hannah Arendt has remarked ...
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... humanitarian thinkers nothing was more absurd than the idea that goodness in man is not the same as goodness in God . This new teaching conflicted with the dogma of original sin , as well as with the orthodox doctrine of hell , which ...
... humanitarian thinkers nothing was more absurd than the idea that goodness in man is not the same as goodness in God . This new teaching conflicted with the dogma of original sin , as well as with the orthodox doctrine of hell , which ...
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... humanitarian sentiments , including moral compas- sion . There are sociological forms of understanding that recognize the social ori- gin of moral sentiments without reducing them to epiphenomena or ideological superstructures of the ...
... humanitarian sentiments , including moral compas- sion . There are sociological forms of understanding that recognize the social ori- gin of moral sentiments without reducing them to epiphenomena or ideological superstructures of the ...
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... Humanitarian efforts in every field of reform during the last two centuries have been mostly concerned with the abolition of pain . These efforts were composed initially of the fight against cruelty , understood as the unjustifiable ...
... Humanitarian efforts in every field of reform during the last two centuries have been mostly concerned with the abolition of pain . These efforts were composed initially of the fight against cruelty , understood as the unjustifiable ...
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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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