The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarRoutledge, 17/06/2013 - 240 من الصفحات Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climate? How do they avoid being partial among those they are helping? Are they motivated by altruistic concern, or the power they experience or the attention they receive? Tony Vaux brings over 20 years experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency managers to the exploration of the conflicts between subjective impulses and objective judgements and the dilemmas relief workers contend with. |
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... social life. Ofcourse, human beings are also capable of extreme selfishness and cruelty, as other stories and anecdotes in this book indeed illustrate. But there is hope in the fact that compassion and concern can flourish in very ...
... social life. Ofcourse, human beings are also capable of extreme selfishness and cruelty, as other stories and anecdotes in this book indeed illustrate. But there is hope in the fact that compassion and concern can flourish in very ...
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... social norms that fix our standard of response. We struggle with our selfishness, trying to find something outside to guide our response. It is not easy to have few moral values and plenty of wealth, relative to the rest of the world ...
... social norms that fix our standard of response. We struggle with our selfishness, trying to find something outside to guide our response. It is not easy to have few moral values and plenty of wealth, relative to the rest of the world ...
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... social responsibility', which perhaps reached their height (in the UK, at least) during World War II, have been deeply eroded. The socialist ideology of the 1960s and 1970s no longer offers significant numbers of people a philosophical ...
... social responsibility', which perhaps reached their height (in the UK, at least) during World War II, have been deeply eroded. The socialist ideology of the 1960s and 1970s no longer offers significant numbers of people a philosophical ...
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... social, economic and political context, we need to obliterate our own self. It is not a pleasant process because we have to question ourselves relentlessly. The advantage is that we will have a better chance of making the right ...
... social, economic and political context, we need to obliterate our own self. It is not a pleasant process because we have to question ourselves relentlessly. The advantage is that we will have a better chance of making the right ...
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A Golden Age of Humanitarianism? | 43 |
Impartiality and Selfrespect | 69 |
Vulnerability and Power | 93 |
Pride and Principle | 115 |
Emotion and Order | 137 |
Responsibility and Rights | 159 |
Mans Inhumanity | 183 |
Chapter 9 The Selfish Altruist | 201 |
Notes on the Sources | 213 |
Index | 224 |
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