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

• 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 (476 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at the conference, Theoretical and social implications of rescuing people in extreme situations: another look at altruism, held in Radziejowice, Poland, in June 1989.

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
• Preface
• Introduction
• 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
• Introduction
• 4. Altruism and Human Nature: Resolving the Evolutionary Paradox
• 5. Altruism and the Evolution of Civil Society
• 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
• 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
• 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