A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

by Raimond Gaita

Powerful and timely, A Common Humanity asks why the language of morality has failed us. Drawing on examples of the Holocaust, the David Irving affair, the case of Mary Bell and the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia, Raimond Gaita challenges our received thinking about evil in this provocative exploration of what makes an ethical society.

Genres: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction

293 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

damn.

[Lilly Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is more or less a series of essays which in and of themselves are not bad, and certainly important, but a good editor would have cut them back significantly and thereby rendered them far more readable.