Titlebook: Cruelty; A Book About Us Maggie Schein Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Natur

心神不寧

I. Mandia about ourselves..To hammer it home: before we engage our rationality—the often-supposed king of morality, that which separates beast from man, and other such well-accompanied misinformed fantasies—before we can even act irrationally, before rationality comes into play at all, we are separate from a

Collision

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Professors of Cruelty: , Anxieties About Being Us,mination), or we are cursed, whereas the others—the rest of nature—are not. We can go to heaven or hell, or so some of us tell ourselves. And the others? Who is to judge? Who are we to judge? And to judge who is to judge??How? With What???Talk of what cruelty is turns quickly to talk about who or wh

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,What Do We Say About Cruelty? Patterns of Responses to the Questions “What Is Cruelty?” or “What Cagods in this area because the subjects make us insecure; this is a theme that runs throughout this book: we often seek definitive proofs, a clean answer, a truth, a tradition, something to lean on. That is what we want, but also something we have to overcome in order to get what we need. This chapte

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Thin Skin and Faith,torturers, and so on. But I found myself having become what felt to be less brave, or perhaps less . is more accurate. I became concerned about the implications of such indifference, avoidance, or, god forbid, defensive callousness. And so I wrote to Coetzee, yet again.

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HUMID

Kaleidoscope Mirrors: Response and Responsiveness,er continues the discussion and the hope that out of our “ignorance,” as I have called it, or our distance from knowledge, there can come a development of a more attuned attention to how to be in and with the world. This, I suggest, is critical not just to our understanding of ourselves as having mo

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The Perfect Sheep,ty to see another creature, and acknowledge another creature as a limit to one’s will, to one’s agency, and insight, and that that capacity is propelled by our natural need to understand what makes each kind of creature flourish as itself, or as one of its kind: whether it is a child, a cat, a fly,

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A Mistake,ange to think of a cat learning how to be in the world in the same way we must. Ours is a constant, perpetual, state of learning, of even, practicing to learn. That means we are constantly making mistakes.