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The Politics of Compassion
The Challenge to Care for the Stranger
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2018
Summary
The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics. It examines both how far we’ve come in addressing poverty and social injustice and how far we still have to go. It concludes by discussing strategies to help us achieve a more consistent practice of compassion in public life.
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Edition
1/2018
Copyright Year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-746-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-748-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
225
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
1 Why Compassion in Politics? No access Pages 1 - 16
2 Historical Perspectives on Social Welfare and International Development No access Pages 17 - 36
3 Historical Perspectives on Human Rights No access Pages 37 - 52
4 Compassion in Religious and Secular Thought No access Pages 53 - 72
5 Justice and Moral Responsibility No access Pages 73 - 94
6 Altruism, the Limits of Empathy, and the Making of “Us” and “Them” No access Pages 95 - 120
7 The Moral Politics of Liberals and Conservatives No access Pages 121 - 138
8 Politics against Compassion in the United States No access Pages 139 - 152
9 Compassion in Public Policy and Law No access Pages 153 - 180
10 Creating a More Compassionate and Just Society No access Pages 181 - 212
