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- Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Kindness and the Good Society utilizes phenomenology and a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources to provide the first comprehensive account of kindness in any genre of philosophy. Remarkably rich in descriptive detail and drawing upon a wide range of examples, including literary sources, current affairs, and traditional philosophical texts, Hamrick’s book rescues kindness from the purposeful neglect of deontological and utilitarian ethical theories. Beginning with an account of the personal and social areas of ethical and moral comportment, Hamrick addresses what is not intuitively obvious about kindness and its opposite, details a critical kindness that avoids both naiveté as well as popular cynicism, and guides us toward a new notion of aesthetic humanism.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxvi
- Chapter 1 Acts and Omissions
- pp. 3-26
- Chapter 2 Personal Kindness
- pp. 27-62
- Chapter 3 The Agency Of Kindness
- pp. 63-93
- Chapter 5 Institutions and Community
- pp. 131-168
- Chapter 6 The Hermeneutic Challenge
- pp. 171-197
- Chapter 7 Ideologies
- pp. 199-235
- Bibliography
- pp. 293-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791489147
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
53226188
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No