2. Altruism and the Moral Value of Rescue: Resisting Persecution, Racism, and Genocide

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Contributors xi
4. PART ONE: PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION
5. Preface 1
6. Introduction 6
7. PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL, DEFINITIONAL, AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
8. Introduction 19
9. 1. Empathy and Protest: Two Roots of Heroic Altruism 22
10. 2. Altruism and the Moral Value of Rescue: Resisting Persecution, Racism, and Genocide 30
11. 3. Rescue, Righteousness, and Morality 48
12. PART THREE: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND MORAL ALTRUISM
13. Introduction 69
14. 4. Altruism and Human Nature: Resolving the Evolutionary Paradox 73
15. 5. Altruism and the Evolution of Civil Society 104
16. PART FOUR: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ENACTMENT OF ALTRUISM
17. Introduction 133
18. 6. The Development of Altruistic Personality 142
19. 7. The Self in Moral Agency: Toward a Theoretical Model of the Ideal Altruistic Personality 170
20. 8. Self, We, and Other(s): Schemata, Distinctiveness, and AI truism 194
21. 9. Motivations of People Who Helped Jews Survive the Nazi Occupation 213
22. 10. Predicting Prosocial Commitment in Different Social Contexts 226
23. 11. Helping in Late Life 253
24. PART FIVE: EMBRACING THE "OUTSIDER"
25. Introduction 279
26. 12. The Question of Altruism during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 282
27. 13. The Dutchness of Dutch Rescuers: The National Dimension of Altruism 306
28. 14. The Role of Polish Nuns in the Rescue of Jews, 1939-1945 328
29. 15. Political Altruism: A Case Study 335
30. PART SIX: PROMOTING ALTRUISTIC BOND
31. Introduction 363
32. 16. Promoting Extensive Altruistic Bonds: A Conceptual Elaboration and Some Pragmatic Implications 369
33. 17. The Origins of Caring, Helping, and Nonaggression: Parental Socialization, the Family System, Schools, and Cultural Influence 390
34. 18. Altruism among Alcoholics 413
35. 19. Altruism and Extensivity in the Baha'i Religion 420
36. 20. Altruism in the Socialist World 433
37. Index 455