Suffering and the Beneficent Community

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Suffering and the Beneficent Community is written by Erich H. Loewy and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791407462 (ISBN 10) and 9780791407462 (ISBN 13).

This book grounds ethics in the capacity for suffering shared by all sentient beings, and sees the avoidance and amelioration of suffering as the prima facie condition of moral interaction. Loewy sees social contract as originating in the original nurturing of individuals, and selfhood and autonomy as emerging in the embrace of beneficence. Communities thus have an implicit obligation to their members, which necessitates a just distribution of resources.