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9780415241144

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415241144

  • ISBN10:

    0415241146

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-02-08
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Powerful and timely,A Common Humanityasks why the language of morality has failed us. Drawing on examples of the Holocaust, the David Irving affair, the case of Mary Bell and the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia, Raimond Gaita challenges our received thinking about evil in this provocative exploration of what makes an ethical society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Preface xv
Introduction: Take Your Time 1(16)
Goodness beyond Virtue
17(12)
Evil beyond Vice
29(28)
Racism: The Denial of a Common Humanity
57(16)
Justice beyond Fairness: Mabo & Social Justice
73(14)
Guilt, Shame & Community
87(20)
Genocide & `The Stoken Generations'
107(24)
Genocide & The Holocaust
131(26)
Forms of the Unthinkable
157(30)
Truth & the Responsibility of Intellectuals
187(28)
Goodness & Truth
215(22)
Truth As a Need of the Soul
237(22)
A Common Humanity
259(27)
Select Bibliography 286(4)
Index 290

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