A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice [Paperback]

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition??Acknowledgements??Preface??1. Introduction? 2. Goodness beyond Virtue? 3. Evil beyond Vice? 4. Racism? 5. Justice beyond Fairness? 6. Guilt, Shame and Community? 7. Genocide and 'The Stolen Generations'? 8. Genocide and the Holocaust? 9. Forms of the Unthinkable? 10. Truth and the Responsibility of Intellectuals? 11. Goodness and Truth? 12. Truth As a Need of the Soul? 13. A Common Humanity.??Postscript to the Routledge Classics Edition??Bibliography??Index

Drawing on the work of Arendt, Weil, Primo Levi and Iris Murdoch, amongst others, Raimond Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface and a substantial Postscript by the author.

'An exploration of how people make moral and ethical judgments by a controversial Autralian moral philosopher. Raimond Gaita's insights are original and his prose is as eloquent as it is affecting.'?-?The Economist, Books of the Year, 2000

'Gaita's genius ... is his ability to weigh the soul on a scale, and to show how goodness and justice might yet prevail.'?-?The Scotsman

'Profound and original ... his humane and wise book offers a view on life which deserves to be taken seriously.'?-?The Times Literary Supplement

'Gaita's gait bedazzles. In both writing and content, there appear senstivity, significance and feeling ... Wittgenstein advises 'Take your time'. I advise such with the issues of this book.'?-?The Philosophers' Magazine

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