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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... individual . There has been increasing criticism of such individual - based moral theories from a group of social philoso- phers who seek to move the ethical debate closer to the concerns of sociologists . They can be loosely called ...
... individual . There has been increasing criticism of such individual - based moral theories from a group of social philoso- phers who seek to move the ethical debate closer to the concerns of sociologists . They can be loosely called ...
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... individual - based ethical theories on both moral and sociological grounds . Sociologically , they recognize the limits of nomadic individualism and propose a theory of individualism that perceives no possibility of the individual as an ...
... individual - based ethical theories on both moral and sociological grounds . Sociologically , they recognize the limits of nomadic individualism and propose a theory of individualism that perceives no possibility of the individual as an ...
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... individuals to be autarkic , reliance on a civil society , disembedded from market and state , as a guarantor of moral obligations is dubious . Others take a more au- thoritarian approach and demand to " remoralize " citizens ...
... individuals to be autarkic , reliance on a civil society , disembedded from market and state , as a guarantor of moral obligations is dubious . Others take a more au- thoritarian approach and demand to " remoralize " citizens ...
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... individual rights ; justice ; equality before the law ; compassion in our case - are simply true for believers in ... individuals ? I will try to argue in this book against the rather commonsense view found in the social sciences that ...
... individual rights ; justice ; equality before the law ; compassion in our case - are simply true for believers in ... individuals ? I will try to argue in this book against the rather commonsense view found in the social sciences that ...
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... individuals through control of affect , cleanliness , and the increasing sense of shame . Weber was interested in how the rationalization processes affected individuals , includ- ing the methodic - rational way of life that excludes ...
... individuals through control of affect , cleanliness , and the increasing sense of shame . Weber was interested in how the rationalization processes affected individuals , includ- ing the methodic - rational way of life that excludes ...
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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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