Compassionate reasoning : changing the mind to change the world / Marc Gopin.
People who work in helping professions have in common, Marc Gopin argues, a set of cultivated moral character traits and psychosocial skills. They tend to be kinder, more reasonable, more self-controlled, and more goal-oriented to peace. They are united by a particular set of moral values and the em...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | People who work in helping professions have in common, Marc Gopin argues, a set of cultivated moral character traits and psychosocial skills. They tend to be kinder, more reasonable, more self-controlled, and more goal-oriented to peace. They are united by a particular set of moral values and the emotional skills to put those values into practice, allowing them to excel in what he calls 'compassionate reasoning.' In this book, Gopin draws upon the history of ethics along with his own 30 year career in the field of peacebuilding to develop an understanding of decisions that we are all forced to make in life's many ethical gray zones. The very multiplicity of approaches to ethics, says Gopin, invites us to look for higher principles and intuitions. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197537954 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197537923.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 21, 2021) |