The loss of compassion (philosophy of the social and individual sphere of the modern man)

Authors
Erzar, T
Citation
T. Erzar, The loss of compassion (philosophy of the social and individual sphere of the modern man), FILOZ VESTN, 20(3), 1999, pp. 147-152
Categorie Soggetti
Philosiphy
Journal title
FILOZOFSKI VESTNIK-ACTA PHILOSOPHICA
ISSN journal
03534510 → ACNP
Volume
20
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
147 - 152
Database
ISI
SICI code
0353-4510(1999)20:3<147:TLOC(O>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
In his short essay, which resembles more a philosophical programme or a man ifesto, the author reflects upon the loss of compassion in philosophy and u ncovers some fatal consequences of the loss in the social and individual sp here of the modern man. The author claims that this repression of compassio n is caused by a reciprocal degradation between thought and its other and i ndicates that if thought is to become a person, we should prepare ourselves for surprise and compassion which accompany the arrival of the third.