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People who work in helping professions have in common, Marc Gopin argues, a set of cultivated moral character traits and psychosocial skills. They tend to be kinder, more reasonable, more self-controlled, and more goal-oriented to peace. They are united by a particular set of moral values
and the emotional skills to put those values into practice, allowing them to excel in what he calls "Compassionate Reasoning." In this book, Gopin draws upon the history of ethics along with his own thirty-year career in the field of peacebuilding to develop an understanding of decisions that we are all forced to make in life's many ethical gray zones. The very multiplicity of approaches to ethics, says Gopin, invites us to look for higher principles and intuitions.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Compassion, Reasoning, and the Urgency of Healing Divided Societies
- 2. The Theory and Practice of Compassionate Reasoning
- 3. Compassionate Reasoning, the Mind, and Moral Choice
- 4. Violent Ideas Treated as Disease and Compassionate Reasoning as Treatment: A Public Health Analogy
- 5. The Applied Ethics and Habits of Compassionate Reasoning
- 6. Summary of the Argument of Compassionate Reasoning: Changing the Mind to Change the World and Implications for Training
- References
- Index
About the author
Marc Gopin is the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) and the James Laue Professor at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University. He has pioneered major interventions, education, and training through CRDC and Gopin Associates LLC in the USA, Syria, Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Jordan, and Turkey.
Summary
People who work in helping professions have in common, Marc Gopin argues, a set of cultivated moral character traits and psychosocial skills. They tend to be kinder, more reasonable, more self-controlled, and more goal-oriented to peace. They are united by a particular set of moral values and the emotional skills to put those values into practice, allowing them to excel in what he calls
