Gaita, Raimond, 1946-

A common humanity : thinking about love and truth and justice / Raimond Gaita. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. - xxxiii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.

Originally published: Melbourne : Text Pub., 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-289) and index.

Goodness beyond virtue -- Evil beyond vice -- Racism: the denial of a common humanity -- Justice beyond fairness: Mabo & social justice -- Guilt, shame & community -- Genocide & 'the stoken generations' -- Genocide & the Holocaust -- Forms of the unthinkable -- Truth & the responsibility of intellectuals -- Goodness & truth -- Truth as a need of the soul -- A common humanity.

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Ethics.
Philosophical anthropology.

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