“In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.” FeelingsCompassionMoralExerciseFeel GoodSentimentalDoing GoodIndignationMoral Indignation Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.” MayMoralCreativityHistoryIntellectualSuicideLiberationInvitationsPostmodernismSirens Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
“For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.” LawOrderPowerfulMoralCreaturesEconomicsFellowsInstinctAbsenceInventionAcquireSuperiorityUnjustCunningUnnaturalValidity Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
