Giving Western Ideas of Philanthropy

Name: Giving Western Ideas of Philanthropy
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ISBN: 9780253330727

ISBN-10: 0253330726

ISBN-13: 9780253330727

Edition: 1996

Authors: J. B. Schneewind

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.53" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

J. B. Schneewindis a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author ofSidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral PhilosophyandThe Invention of Autonomy.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Philanthropy as a Virtue in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages




Contexts of Charity in the Middle Ages: Religious, Social, and Civic




Philosophical Ideas of Charity: Some Historical Reflections




The Philanthropic Perspective after a Hundred Years




Charity, Justice, and the Idea of Moral Progress




Losses and Gains




Motivation, Cognition, and Charitable Giving




Philanthropy in the African American Experience




"Human Communion" or a Free Lunch: School Dinners in Victorian and Edwardian London




Compromising to Achieve: Choices in International Charity



Bibliography


Contributors


Index