Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Refine search results

Journals help

  1. 1 Filozofia (Philosophy)

Authors help

  1. 1 Barucello G.

Years help

  1. 1 2010

Results found: 1

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

Search:
in the keywords:  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
1

NO PAIN, NO GAIN. THE UNDERSTANDING OF CRUELTY IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND SOME REFLECTIONS ON PERSONHOOD

100%
Barucello G.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
|
2010
|
vol. 65
|
issue 2
170-183
EN
Almost daily, we read and hear of car bombings, violent riots and escalating criminal activities. Such actions are typically condemned as 'cruel' and their 'cruelty' is taken as the most blameworthy trait, to which institutions are obliged, it is implied, to respond by analogously 'cruel but necessary' measures. Almost daily, we read and hear of tragic cases of suicide, usually involving male citizens of various age, race, and class, whose farewell notes, if any, are regularly variations on an old, well-known adagio: 'Goodbye cruel world'. Additionally, many grave cruelties are neither reported nor even seen by the media: people are cheated, betrayed, belittled and affronted in many ways, which are as humiliating as they are ordinary. Yet, what is cruel? What meaning unites the plethora of phenomena that are reported 'cruel'? How is it possible for cruelty to be so extreme and, at the same time, so common? This paper wishes to offer a survey of the main conceptions of cruelty in the history of Western thought, their distinctive constants of meaning being considered in view of a better understanding of cruelty's role in shaping each person's selfhood.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.