{"product_id":"choosing-to-feel-diana-fritz-cates-9780268008147","title":"Choosing To Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf suffering is one hallmark of the human condition, another is the virtue of compassion, which disposes persons to suffer the pain of others as partly their own. In \u003cem\u003eChoosing to Feel\u003c\/em\u003e, Diana Fritz Cates draws on an Aristotelian-Thomistic foundation to develop an original theory of compassion as she explores how persons are able--and why they would want-to deliberately orient themselves toward the co-suffering of another person's pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCates opens with an account of virtue which examines what it means to choose to feel a passion according to the measure of practical wisdom. She goes on to explore the nature of friendship and some of the impact that Christian faith can have on one's view of self and others. Cates then integrates her view of virtue, friendship, and compassion in a way that specifies what someone who is good at being compassionate does and does not choose to feel as someone who intentionally binds him or herself to other persons. The book focuses primarily on the com pas passion that persons feel toward friends, but it culminates in an analysis of compassion for strangers and enemies. Throughout, \u003cem\u003eChoosing to Feel\u003c\/em\u003e promotes conceptual clarity and depth of understanding regarding what compassion is, how it can be cultivated, and why it should be cultivated as part of a full human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars and students of religious, theological, and philosophical ethics will appreciate this study for its unique combination of rigorous philosophical analysis and attentiveness to the complexities of lived moral experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Fritz Cates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268008140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268008147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.39w x 1.15d","brand":"Diana Fritz Cates","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46906548879615,"sku":"9780268008147","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a671a58-8e79-4bd9-b084-4219f0ec6ae5.jpg?v=1748770753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/choosing-to-feel-diana-fritz-cates-9780268008147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}