Kindness and the good society : connections of the heart / William S. Hamrick.

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Hamrick, William S

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585476225
9780585476223
0791452654
9780791452653
0791452662
9780791452660
9780791489147
0791489140

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kindness and the good society.DDC classification:

177/.7 22

LOC classification:

BJ1533.K5 H35 2002eb

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Contents:

Part 1: Acts and omissions -- Personal kindness -- The agency of kindness -- Social atmospheres, technology, and nature -- Institutions and community -- Part 2: The hermeneutic challenge -- Ideologies -- Critical kindness: towards an aesthetic humanism.

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 naivete as well as popular cynicism, and guides us toward a new notion of aesthetic humanism."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.

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"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 naivete as well as popular cynicism, and guides us toward a new notion of aesthetic humanism."--Jacket.

English.

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