Compassion : loving our neighbor in an age of globalization / Maureen H. O'Connell.
Publication details: Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c2009.Description: x, 242 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781570758454
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- BJ1475 .O26 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Overview -- The Good Samaritan reprise -- American compassion in a global age: convenient samaritanism -- Dispatches from the road to Jericho: why we need compassion more than ever -- Challenges to authentic samaritanism -- What are they saying about compassion in philosophical ethics? -- Compassion as expression of emotive reasoning -- Compassion as virtue for moral development -- Compassion as virtue for social order -- Philosophical foundations for new compassion -- What are they saying about compassion in theological ethics? -- Sacred narratives of divine compassion -- Compassion and politically dangerous discipleship -- Compassion and social transformation -- Which of these was a neighbor to the person suffering from injustice? -- Compassion as upheaval in the political philosophy of Martha C. Nussbaum -- Perceiving reality: artistotelian liberalism from ancient Greece to the United Nations interpreting the social reality by means of the upheaval of emotions -- Transforming social reality: Nussbaum's capability approach to justice -- Concluding remarks: compassion as an upheaval -- Compassion as interruption in the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz -- Facing the suffering people of the times -- Perceiving reality: compassion as political -- Interpreting reality: compassion as mystical -- Transforming reality: an anthropology of the political subject -- Political compassion as a first-world interruption -- Christian ethics after Katrina: political compassion in social disasters -- The massively uneven tragedies of a social disaster -- Perceiving social disasters through relational anthropology -- Interpreting social disasters through interruptions -- Transforming social disasters through empowerment, humility, and solidarity -- Compassion after Katrina -- Transforming the Jericho road: political compassion and global ethics -- Global ethics: an age-old question with new-age urgency -- Political compassion: loving our neighbor in an age of globalization -- Justice as experiential vision -- A reprise of the Good Samaritan.