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Traditions of Compassion

From Religious Duty to Social Activism

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  • © 2005

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  1. Khen Lampert
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Part of the book series: Library of Philosophy and Religion (LPR)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Divine Compassion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Compassionate God

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 3-24

    3. Human Divinity

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 25-44

    4. Seeds of Anti-compassion

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 45-61

  3. Universal Compassion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Indiscriminate Compassion

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 65-84

    3. The Buddhist Ideal

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 85-103

    4. Compassion Without Teeth

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 104-119

  4. Human Compassion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Fragmentation of Compassion

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 123-149

    3. Compassion Revisited

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 150-175

    4. Conclusion

      • Khen Lampert
      Pages 176-183

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 184-203
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About this book

Throughout history, compassion has stood at the base of the radical cry to change the world order and remedy injustices. It has also been a political tool for society's power-wielders, who have exploited the sense of calling compassion arouses to hide the repressive, belligerent, and manipulative nature of society's power structure. This book analyzes four models of compassion, each representing manifestations of compassion in different cultures and eras: Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, Modernism, and the author's alternative, a response to neocapitalist postmodernism-radical compassion and its imperative to take action.

About the author

KHEN LAMPERT is Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Department of East-Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His areas of expertise are philosophy; critical theory; East-Asian cultures; and history of ideas. For over twenty years, concurrent with his academic activities, he has worked with children in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Israel (both Jewish and Arabs), in a wide range of capacities (counsellor, co-ordinator, instructor, director). He is the author of Compassionate Education: Prolegomena for Radical Schooling (2003) and the co-author of A Voice Unheard: Insight to Children's Distress (2005) (Hebrew).

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