Lesser Good

The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the _higher goods_ of ethics_humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the weak and suffering.

The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the _higher goods_ of ethics_humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the weak and suffering.

Wendy C. Hamblet serves as a Research Fellow at the Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada, and teaches Contemporary World, Moral Issues, and Genocide Studies at North Carolina A & T State University.