Kindness and the Good Society
Subtitle: Connections of the Heart (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780791452660
Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Social & political philosophy; Kindness; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Interpersonal Relations; Movements - Phenomenology
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.