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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... modern form of morality . It played a historically important role in the rise of modern society , and it continues to play an important role today . And if we understand the nature of compassion and its connection to social structure ...
... modern form of morality . It played a historically important role in the rise of modern society , and it continues to play an important role today . And if we understand the nature of compassion and its connection to social structure ...
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... modern people shiver with disgust . To simply hear the details of torture narrated produces in most moderns a physical revulsion . Sometimes it leads to outrage and clamoring that something must be done ; sometimes it leads merely to ...
... modern people shiver with disgust . To simply hear the details of torture narrated produces in most moderns a physical revulsion . Sometimes it leads to outrage and clamoring that something must be done ; sometimes it leads merely to ...
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Care and Cruelty in Modern Society Natan Sznaider. most prominent at the time they wrote . Adam Smith , for instance , was consid- ered chiefly a moral philosopher until seventy - five years after his death ; it was only in the mid to ...
Care and Cruelty in Modern Society Natan Sznaider. most prominent at the time they wrote . Adam Smith , for instance , was consid- ered chiefly a moral philosopher until seventy - five years after his death ; it was only in the mid to ...
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... modern society . I will try to understand the moral foundations of modern society as the interplay between compassion and barbarism that results from the world moving between a communal morality and a universal one . This is also why I ...
... modern society . I will try to understand the moral foundations of modern society as the interplay between compassion and barbarism that results from the world moving between a communal morality and a universal one . This is also why I ...
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... modern society can develop any sense of moral responsibility . It also collapses market society into mere profit making . However , market be- havior is not only about profit making . Does market society civilize behavior as , among ...
... modern society can develop any sense of moral responsibility . It also collapses market society into mere profit making . However , market be- havior is not only about profit making . Does market society civilize behavior as , among ...
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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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