Compassion and the Softening of Mores

Issue Date January 2000
Volume 11
Issue 1
Page Numbers 142-148
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About the Author

Clifford Orwin is professor of political science and director of the Program in Political Philosophy and International Affairs at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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