Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy
Author:   Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253330727


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 November 1996
Format:   Hardback
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Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy


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What ways do we have for understanding charity and philanthropy? How do we come to think in these ways? In this volume, historians of antiquity, the middle ages, early modern thought, and the Victorian era discuss the evolution of thinking about and practicing voluntary giving, taking up some inescapable questions about charity.

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Author:   Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780253330727


ISBN 10:   0253330726
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 November 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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J. B. SCHNEEWIND is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, and is completing a study of the history of moral philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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