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In 2008 and 2009, the United States Congress apologized for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery.” Today no one denies the cruelty of slavery, but few issues inspired more controversy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Abolitionists denounced the inhumanity of slavery, while proslavery activists proclaimed it both just and humane. Margaret Abruzzo delves deeply into the slavery debate to better understand the nature and development of humanitarianism and how the slavery issue helped shape modern concepts of human responsibility for the suffering of others. Abruzzo first traces the slow, indirect growth in the eighteenth century of moral objections to slavery's cruelty, which took root in awareness of the moral danger of inflicting unnecessary pain. Rather than accept pain as inescapable, as had earlier generations, people fought to ease, discredit, and abolish it. Within a century, this new humanitarian sensibility had made immoral the wanton infliction of pain. Abruzzo next examines how this modern understanding of humanity and pain played out in the slavery debate. Drawing on shared moral-philosophical concepts, particularly sympathy and benevolence, pro- and antislavery writers voiced starkly opposing views of humaneness. Both sides constructed their moral identities by demonstrating their own humanity and criticizing the other’s insensitivity. Understanding this contest over the meaning of humanity—and its ability to serve varied, even contradictory purposes—illuminates the role of pain in morality. Polemical Pain shows how the debate over slavery’s cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Margaret Abruzzo |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Release |
: 2011-05-01 |
File |
: 340 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781421401270 |
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Todd D. Still |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
File |
: 345 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781841270036 |
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Topics covered include low back pain in workers' compensation, payroll taxes, unfunded liabilities, occupational health and safety, private participation, the cost, appeals litigation.
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: Political Science |
Author |
: Morley Gunderson |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Release |
: 2000-01-01 |
File |
: 438 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802082394 |
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: Lorenzo DOW |
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: 1809 |
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: 88 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0023228078 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
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: Fiction |
Author |
: Frances Power Cobbe |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Release |
: 2024-05-31 |
File |
: 358 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783385486324 |
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: William Brade |
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: 1862 |
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: 396 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OXFORD:600059083 |
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: John Fletcher |
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: 1797 |
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: 124 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0021215814 |
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: James Everett |
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: 1839 |
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: 526 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0020269531 |
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This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus. The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Paul van Riel |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2016-06-21 |
File |
: 221 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004321106 |
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This volume concentrates on a hedonistic argument that enters the philosophical debate, when philosophers argue that what they present as the good life is the truly pleasurable life. The book investigates more precisely how this point was made by Plato and his successors.
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Genre |
: Philosophy |
Author |
: Gerd Van Riel |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2000 |
File |
: 228 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004117970 |