Author: Raimond Gaita
Publisher: Roli
ISBN: 415241138
Format: Hardback
About this Book:
A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice is a beautifully written and profound book about how the humanity of our fellow human beings is sometimes not fully visible to us. Drawing on the examples of the Holocaust, the David Irving Affair, the case of Mary Bell and the taking of children of mixed blood from Aboriginal parents in Australia, Raimand Gaita examines the reasons for this. Amonst them, he argues, is a narrow conception of morality that runs deep in our culture and also an impoverished notion of reason and understanding. Both encourage a false opposition between moral judgement and compassion and between the head and heart. Turning on its head the way we are inclined to think about evil, Gaita argues for an understanding of it that is inseparable from the sense of preciousness of each human being. Only this conception of evil can safeguard us against the temptation to treat some evil-doers as subhuman.
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