A Common Humanity

Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91229-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: Routledge Classics

Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a shared morality? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in A Common Humanity.

Hatred with forgiveness, evil with love, suffering with compassion, and the mundane with the precious. Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights when it is our shared feelings of grief, hope, love, guilt, shame and remorse that offer a more potent foundation for common understanding.

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simon Weil, Primo Levi and Iris Murdoch, amongst others, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface and a substantial Postscript by the author, in which he revisits some of the main themes of A Common Humanity and engages with responses to it since it was first published.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaita, Raimond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition  Acknowledgements  Preface  1. Introduction 2. Goodness beyond Virtue 3. Evil beyond Vice 4. Racism 5. Justice beyond Fairness 6. Guilt, Shame and Community 7. Genocide and 'The Stolen Generations' 8. Genocide and the Holocaust 9. Forms of the Unthinkable 10. Truth and the Responsibility of Intellectuals 11. Goodness and Truth 12. Truth As a Need of the Soul 13. A Common Humanity.  Postscript to the Routledge Classics Edition  Bibliography  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raimond Gaita is an Australian philosopher and writer. He is Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Law School and Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London. His books The Philosopher's Dog and Beyond Good and Evil are both available from Routledge.