Misplaced Compassion

Author : Ward M. Clark
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780595175871

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Misplaced Compassion by Ward M. Clark Pdf

There are groups out there that want to radically change the way you live your life. They want to stop you from hunting and fishing in the great outdoors. They want to stop life saving medical research. They want to ban circuses and zoos. They want to force you to stop eating meat and using other animal based products. They even want to stop you from owning pets. These groups resort to a variety of tactics, from lobbying Congress, to protests and rallies. They even resort, in some cases, to violence. Who are these groups? They are proponents of the Animal Rights agenda. Read this book to find out who these groups are, and what they are doing to change the way you are allowed to live your life! This book debunks the shaky foundations of the AR agenda with equal doses of common sense and scientific evidence. It is fully referenced for further research by the curious reader.

Author : Evan J. Mandery
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0763733083

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Capital Punishment by Evan J. Mandery Pdf

An innovative, comprehensive overview of capital punishment. This book offers an objective, policy-oriented examination of the death penalty as practiced in the United States.

Author : Barbara S. Andrew,Jean Keller,Lisa H. Schwartzman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742579910

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Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics by Barbara S. Andrew,Jean Keller,Lisa H. Schwartzman Pdf

This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist philosophy while making substantive contributions to current debates in gender theory, ethics, and political thought.

Author : Lisa Yount
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438130637

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Animal Rights by Lisa Yount Pdf

Praise for the previous edition: ...an excellent first-stop resource for research on animal rights...well organized, clearly written, and a great starting point for research...Recommended.-Choice...comprehensive...invaluable for reports on a popular current topic.-VOYA... a] very complete research guide that will be most useful at the high school and college level.-American Reference Books AnnualThe treatment of animals has become a controversial issue over the years, with many questioning an animal's fundamental rights. For some, the issue of animal rights is merely an attempt to improve conditions of animals used for clothing, food, and other products, while others believe animals should be granted the same legal rights afforded to humans. Animal Rights, Revised Edition provides an overview of the history of the animal rights movement and reactions to it, as well as the issues of animal experimentation, conditions on factory farms, laboratory animals, animals in entertainment, hunting, and the actions of those involved in the animal rights debate. New content includes such documents as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 and contemporary court cases such as Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Glickman. These documents provide both past and present perspectives on the issue and plot a course for future debate about animal rights. A comprehensive and up-to-date overview essay, capsule biographies, a large annotated bibliography, a chronology of significant events, organization and agency listings, and a glossary all combine to make this an ideal first-stop reference to animal rights.Coverage includes: Whether medical testing performed on animals is ethicalWhether animals should be banned from circuses and other forms of entertainmentHow threats against investors in companies that participate in animal drug testing should be handle

Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780062339355

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Against Empathy by Paul Bloom Pdf

New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion. Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nations—who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and—yes—ultimately more moral. Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, AGAINST EMPATHY shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we can make.

Author : Justin Caouette,Carolyn Price
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786604200

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The Moral Psychology of Compassion by Justin Caouette,Carolyn Price Pdf

Compassion is widely regarded as an important moral emotion – a fitting response to various cases of suffering and misfortune. Yet contemporary theorists have rarely given it sustained attention. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering answers to a number of questions surrounding this emotion. These questions include: What is the nature of compassion? How does compassion differ from other emotions, such as empathy, pity, or gratitude? Is compassion a virtue? Can we have too much compassion? How does compassion influence other mental states (desires, motivations, beliefs, and intentions) and behaviour? How is compassion influenced by the environment? Must compassion be deserved? Can one be moral while lacking the capacity for compassion? Compassion, like other emotions, has many facets – biological, social, psychological and neural, among others. The contributors to this volume will draw on a variety of disciplines and methods in order to develop a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of this often-neglected moral emotion.

Author : Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110814682

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The Struggle over Singapore's Soul by Joseph B. Tamney Pdf

Author : Katherine Ibbett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812249705

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Compassion's Edge by Katherine Ibbett Pdf

Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717149

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Essential Mind Training by Anonim Pdf

Essential Mind Training is the first volume in the Tibetan Classics series, which aims to make available accessible paperback editions of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from Wisdom Publications' Library of Tibetan Classics. The key to happiness is not the eradication of all problems but rather the development of a mind capable of transforming any problem into a cause of happiness. Essential Mind Training is full of guidance for cultivating new mental habits for mastering our thoughts and emotions. This volume contains eighteen individual works selected from Mind Training: The Great Collection, the earliest compilation of mind-training (lojong) literature. The first volume of the historic Tibetan Classics series, Essential Mind Training includes both lesser-known and renowned classics such as Eight Verses on Mind Training and The Seven-Point Mind Training. These texts offer methods for practicing the golden rule of learning to love your neighbor as yourself and are full of practical and down-to-earth advice. The techniques explained here, by enhancing our capacity for compassion, love, and perseverance, can give us the freedom to embrace the world.

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chaitanya (Sect)
ISBN : 9780911233254

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Vaisnava Compassion by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī Pdf

Author : Albino Barrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009384650

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Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics by Albino Barrera Pdf

Conflicting demands of love and justice are among the most vexing problems of social philosophy, moral theology, and public policy. They often have life-and-death consequences for millions. This book examines how and why love-justice conflicts arise to begin with and what we can do to reconcile their competing claims.

Author : Thupten Jinpa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717118

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Mind Training by Thupten Jinpa Pdf

Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as "mind training," or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance. The mind-training teachings are highly revered by the Tibetan people for their pragmatism and down-to-earth advice on coping with the various challenges and hardships that unavoidably characterize everyday human existence. The volume contains forty-four individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa's well-known Leveling Out All Preconceptions, Atisha's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. An accurate and lyrical translation of these texts, many of which are in metered verse, marks an important contribution to the world's literary heritage, enriching its spiritual resources.

Author : Nicholas A Cummings,Janet L Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136259647

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Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health by Nicholas A Cummings,Janet L Cummings Pdf

Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice and innovation between them. Refocused Psychotherapy responds directly to the recent decline of psychosocial services and helps to put psychotherapy back as the first line intervention in mental health. The authors teach psychotherapists how to work side by side with primary care physicians to provide efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency—the standards psychotherapeutic intervention is held up to. Detailed case studies are followed up by discussions of diagnosis, personality type, homework, and therapeutic techniques that show readers how to form their own case conceptualizations. The authors also teach readers how to treat their patients individually and to diagnose effectively through their onion/garlic conceptualization. Finally, they provide lists of common abbreviations that are helpful to know when reading prescriptions, and lists of drugs, drug interactions, dosage, and side effects that expand readers’ vocabulary and allow them to be more knowledgeable as they work with primary care physicians. These innovative and revealing techniques will help readers develop the skills necessary for cost-effective therapeutic results.

Author : Anne L.C. Runehov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319443928

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The Human Being, the World and God by Anne L.C. Runehov Pdf

This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on the idea that in order to understand the common, one has to study the specific. The book shows how the self is thought of as a three-fold emergent self, comprising a relationship between an objective neural segment, a subjective neural segment and a subjective transcendent segment. It explains that the self in the world tackles philosophical problems such as the problem of free will, the problem of evil, the problem of human uniqueness and empathy. It demonstrates how the problem of time also has its place here. For many people, the world includes ultimate reality; hence the book provides an analysis and evaluation of different relationships between human beings and Ultimate Reality (God). The book presents an answer to the philosophical problem of how one could understand divine action in the world.

Author : Sga Rab-ʼbyams-pa,Ga Rabjampa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614290049

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To Dispel the Misery of the World by Sga Rab-ʼbyams-pa,Ga Rabjampa Pdf

"Offered here is the pith advice on mind training according to the great vehicle. This is the path followed by all the buddhas and their children of the past, present, and future, the most profound instruction of the oral lineage, and the quintessence of the ocean of all the excellent teachings." --Ga Rabjampa This short book contains a wealth of advice for those wanting to become more fully human. When we are disconnected from others we flounder; only by recognizing the profound interdependence of all beings do we flourish and grow. The famous Seven-Point Mind Training, in just a few pages of one-line instructions, provides direct and powerful advice for breaking through the chronic barriers that separate us from those around us. It is easy to see why it is one of the most cherished texts in all of Tibetan Buddhism. Ga Rabjampa, an influential master of the fifteenth century, here uses the Seven-Point Mind Training as the basis for illuminating the essential teachings on Buddhism, giving special attention to the practices of giving and taking (tonglen) and of transforming adversity into opportunities for spiritual growth.