A Common Humanity

Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

By: Raimond Gaita

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Hardcover | 25 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, 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, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and Sigmund Freud, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind History of Western Philosophy

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Introduction: Take Your Time	p. 1
Goodness beyond Virtue	p. 17
Evil beyond Vice	p. 29
Racism: The Denial of a Common Humanity	p. 57
Justice beyond Fairness: Mabo and Social Justice	p. 73
Guilt, Shame and Community	p. 87
Genocide and 'The Stoken Generations'	p. 107
Genocide and The Holocaust	p. 131
Forms of the Unthinkable	p. 157
Truth and the Responsibility of Intellectuals	p. 187
Goodness and Truth	p. 215
Truth As a Need of the Soul	p. 237
A Common Humanity	p. 259
Select Bibliography	p. 286
Index	p. 290
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