Victims and values : a history and a theory of suffering
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Victims and values : a history and a theory of suffering
（Contributions in philosophy, no. 42）
Greenwood Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Victims and Values joins history and ethics, conducting a timely inquiry into conscience and politics. Mindful of William James's notion that ethics must be grounded in the historical situation, this book examines fundamental ambiquities, dichotomies, and contradictions that we experience about the worth of our own suffering and that of others. In particular, it analyzes how victims make a powerful claim upon contemporary conscience and politics. Amato distances himself equally from those who deny suffering all substantive meaning and those who fashionably transform it into self-righteous identities and political rhetorics and ideologies. Amato's hope is that each person will be able to take measure of the suffering of others, while still remaining able to value his own suffering.
After distinguishing pain from suffering, Amato starts his work with the assumption that humanity must interpret and give meaning to its pains and sufferings. Amato examines the fundamental place of suffering, sacrifice, and victims in Greek and Christian cultures. Reaching the central object of his study, the modern mind, Amato shows how the reformist world view of the eighteenth century philosopher sought to reduce suffering to a matter of rational calculation and how the progressive views of the nineteenth century dedicated the most profound energies of society and state to the elimination of human suffering. Ironically, in the twentieth century this resulted in an increasingly hedonistic society that is preoccupied with suffering and its rights, victims and their claims. Historians, philosophers, political scientists, theologians, and lay people will all find a lively forum in Amato's work.
目次
Foreword by Eugen Weber
Introduction
Pain and Suffering, Currencies of Value
Sacrifice, All But the Philosophers' Way
Christianity, Suffering's Worth
Death to Sacrifice: The Eighteenth Century Revolution Against Transcendence
An Expanded Heart: A Century of Reform, Feelings, and Empathy
A Century of Victims: Europe's Responsibility for a World's Suffering
America: Its Victims
Universal Victims and the Limits of the Politics of Suffering
Conclusion: To Tell of One's Own Sufferings
Bibliographical Essay
Indexes
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