Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart

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Abram, David: 113, 114, 116, 118, 124 Achebe, Chinua: 67, 68 affectlessness: 36, 40, 41, 43, 72, 74, 92, 268n. 7 aesthetic humanism: 250–58 agape: 147, 148, 158; and eros, 117 ahimsa: 188 alienation: in architecture and community design, 164–65; from the body, 5, 6–7, 11, 53, 222; and judgments, 81–82, 85–86; from nature, 114–16, 118, 119, 127, 165–66; of nature from grace, 116–17; from others, 22, 37, 45, 46–47, 56, 65, 67; from the world of feelings, 72, 93, 138, 139, 143, 166, 178, 219 Allen-Littlefield Collection of lynching photographs: 92–93 Allende, Isabel: 24, 89, 275n. 19 Althusser, Louis: 67, 86, 272–73n. 45 ambiguity: xvi, xxv; in hunting and fishing, 126–27; in institutional politics, 17; in kind acts and omissions to act, 17–18, 65–66, 84, 91, 239, 241, 242, 269n. 23; in perception, 15, 16, 17, 28, 59, 79; of selfimage , 206; in social policies, 107–08; in social institutions, 131–32, 134, 142, 143, 204 American cultural hegemony: 162 Americans, Native: 43, 50, 67, 122, 136, 137, 155, 167, 285n. 30 animals: 69 Appiah, Kwame Anthony: 273, n. 4 architecture: 252–53 Arendt, Hannah: 148 Aristotle: xxv, 30, 32, 35, 51, 61, 69, 74, 225, 273n. 6, 274n. 12 art: descriptive and normative senses, 291n. 9; and social controversy, 291n. 8; and truth, xxv Attig, Tom: 263n. 4 attunement: See dispositions Auden, W.H.: 96, 258, 268n. 10 Auschwitz: 105, 121 Austen, Jane: 40, 87, 272n. 42, 277n. 33 Austin, John: 19–20, 30 Bacon, Francis: 121 Baier, Annette: 69, 230–31, 232, 233, 234, 235 Balzac, Honoré de: xxv, 42, 58 Barber, S.J., Michael: 77, 89–90, 158, 268n. 12 Bartky, Sandra: 53, 222, 264n. 9 Baudrillard, Jean: 255 Bauhaus School: 252, 253, 256 Beardsley, Monroe: 244, 246, 291n. 7 Beauvoir, Simone de: 223 Bellah, Robert: 132, 158, 160, 167, 191, 211, 231; 286n. 6 Berne, Eric: 83 Bigwood, Carol: 108, 221, 265n. 19 Black Elk: 116, 118, 164 Blake, William: 27, 42, 51, 63 Blum, Lawrence: 163 body image: 11, 53, 100, 105, 224, 227, 290nn. 21, 22 Bollnow, Otto Friedrich: 259n. 3 Boltanski, Luc: 147, 148, 149, 158, 208, 287n. 9 Bordo, Susan: 224, 225, 226, 254, 289n. 18, 292n. 16 Boswell, John: 271n. 33 Bourdieu, Pierre: 255 Bridges, Thomas: 156, 157 Brontë, Charlotte: 39, 52, 57–58, 86, 117, 139, 145, 160, 202, 269n. 16, 286n. 3 Buber, Martin: 42, 47, 53, 54 Buddha, the: 77 Bury, Emmanuel: xxiii–xxiv Butler, Bishop Joseph: 77, 281n. 34 Butler, Judith: 220, 223–24 Index Camus, Albert: 36, 40, 268n. 7, 271n. 36 calculational thought: 81, 86, 88, 148 capitalism: 238; of the 1980s, 97; as not completely inconsistent with kindness, 166, 203; corporations and pornography, 261n. 16; exploitation of the developing world, 137, 200–05; and technology, 105, 118. See also exploitation capital punishment: 137, 282n. 6 Card, Claudia: 229, 231 care: 66, 70–7; as spurious, 86 Carr, Brian: 274n. 12 Cataldi, Suzanne: 13 Chagall, Marc: 117 Chambonnais, the: 9, 32, 44, 45 character: xii, 28–32, 73, 74, 75; and weak and strong senses of kindness, 29–30 charity: as inventive, 87, 88, 91, 148, 168, 240, 242–43, 253; as social virtue, 70; spurious, 63, 82 Chase, Father Maurice: 86 Chekhov, Anton: 38 Chopin, Kate: 172, 176, 181, 286n 2 chun-tzu: 46 civility: xvi–xvii; under attack in Japan, 162 Claudel, Camille: 225–26 coercion: 67, 107, 109, 173, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218, 229, 238, 239, 241, 264n. 6 Coles, Robert: 95, 96, 139, 161, 197, 220 Columbine High School: 77 community: 75, 93; definitions of, 153; kindness and unkindness in, xvii, 152–66 communitarianisms: versus libertarianisms, 166–68 Compagnon, Antoine: 253 compassion: 38, 69, 79, 88, 173; and bodily intentionality, 33; and co-feeling, 79; and duty, 209; and the Good Samaritan, 12, 39; and justice, 144–45; for non-human creatures, 125; and pity, 77, 84, 85, 192; and responsibility, 80; and suffering, 49, 76 “compassionate conservatism”: 143, 261n. 13, 283n.11 Conrad, Joseph: 41, 43, 118, 184, 269, n. 20 conscience: 75, 91 Constant, Benjamin: 166 corporations: 140 courtesy: 82 Cox, Harvey: 47–48, 154 creativity: 77 cruelty: 80, 173; to animals, 124–25, 127; institutional, 136–37, 140. See also Douglass, Frederick, and Hallie, Philip cultural relativism: 193–95 Curley, Edwin: 163, 232 Dalai Lama, the: 45, 52, 80, 123, 155, 172 Dakota, the: 46, 116, 117, 118, 123, 129, 164...