NO PAIN, NO GAIN: The Understanding of Cruelty in Western Philosophy and Some Reflections on Personhood.

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 necessa...

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Published in:	Filozofia Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 170 - 184
Main Author:	Baruchello, Giorgio
Format:	Article
Published:	Filozofia 2010
Subjects:	Personality (Theory of knowledge) Cruelty Liberalism Pain Plethora (Pathology) Historiography of Western civilization Criminal intent Bombings
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