Embracing the Other : : Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism / / ed. by Lawrence Blum, Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron.

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• MitwirkendeR: Baron, Lawrence,; Blum, Lawrence A.,; Boland, Daniel M.,; Cohen, Ronald,; Heller, Wendy M.,; Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel,; Hovannisian, Richard G.,; Jarymowicz, Maria,; Konarzewski, Krzysztof,; Krebs, Dennis L.,; Kurek-Lesik, Ewa,; Mahmoudi, Hoda,; Midlarsky, Elizabeth,; Montada, Leo,; Oliner, Pearl M.,; Oliner, Samuel P.,; Osiatynski, Wiktor,; Reykowski, Janusz,; Seidler, Victor J.,; Smolenska, M. Zuzanna,; Staub, Ervin,; Van Hestere, Frank,; Van Hesteren, Frank,; Vine, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Baron, Lawrence,; Blum, Lawrence,; Oliner, Pearl,; Oliner, Samuel P.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Contributors
• PART ONE: PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL, DEFINITIONAL, AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
• Introduction
• 1. Empathy and Protest: Two Roots of Heroic Altruism
• 2. Altruism and the Moral Value of Rescue: Resisting Persecution, Racism, and Genocide
• 3. Rescue, Righteousness, and Morality
• PART THREE: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND MORAL ALTRUISM
• Introduction
• 4. Altruism and Human Nature: Resolving the Evolutionary Paradox
• 5. Altruism and the Evolution of Civil Society
• PART FOUR: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ENACTMENT OF ALTRUISM
• Introduction
• 6. The Development of Altruistic Personality
• 7. The Self in Moral Agency: Toward a Theoretical Model of the Ideal Altruistic Personality
• 8. Self, We, and Other(s): Schemata, Distinctiveness, and AI truism
• 9. Motivations of People Who Helped Jews Survive the Nazi Occupation
• 10. Predicting Prosocial Commitment in Different Social Contexts
• 11. Helping in Late Life
• PART FIVE: EMBRACING THE "OUTSIDER"
• Introduction
• 12. The Question of Altruism during the Armenian Genocide of 1915
• 13. The Dutchness of Dutch Rescuers: The National Dimension of Altruism
• 14. The Role of Polish Nuns in the Rescue of Jews, 1939-1945
• 15. Political Altruism: A Case Study
• PART SIX: PROMOTING ALTRUISTIC BOND
• Introduction
• 16. Promoting Extensive Altruistic Bonds: A Conceptual Elaboration and Some Pragmatic Implications
• 17. The Origins of Caring, Helping, and Nonaggression: Parental Socialization, the Family System, Schools, and Cultural Influence
• 18. Altruism among Alcoholics
• 19. Altruism and Extensivity in the Baha'i Religion
• 20. Altruism in the Socialist World
• Index