Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: DIVINE COMPASSION The Compassionate God Human Divinity Seeds of Anti-Compassion PART II: UNIVERSAL COMPASSION Indiscriminate Compassion The Buddhist Ideal Compassion without Teeth PART III: HUMAN COMPASSION The Fragmentation of Compassion Compassion Revisited Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography

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KHEN LAMPERT is Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Department of East-Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His areas of expertise are philosophy; critical theory; East-Asian cultures; and history of ideas. For over twenty years, concurrent with my academic activities, he has worked with children in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Israel (both Jewish and Arabs), in a wide range of capacities (counsellor, co-ordinator, instructor, director). He is the author of Compassionate Education: Prolegomena for Radical Schooling (2003) and the co-author of A Voice Unheard: Insight to C

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KHEN LAMPERT is Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Department of East-Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His areas of expertise are philosophy; critical theory; East-Asian cultures; and history of ideas. For over twenty years, concurrent with his academic activities, he has worked with children in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Israel (both Jewish and Arabs), in a wide range of capacities (counsellor, co-ordinator, instructor, director). He is the author of Compassionate Education: Prolegomena for Radical Schooling (2003) and the co-author of A Voice Unheard: Insight to Children's Distress (2005) (Hebrew).