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Compassionate strangers

Compassionate strangers The war started suddenly and, within days, hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed the border from Lebanon into the security of Syria looking for safety. Many were supported by Syrian families and lived with them, others took the next plane to the West, and some were housed in converted summer camps of the youth movement in Syria. After a few weeks the war ended, as suddenly as it began, and the refugees returned to what was left of their homes. This is not the accustomed image in the West of refugees where the pictures are those provided by the media, usually images coming from Africa, showing people from already desperately poor countries descending into even worse conditions. The emotional response is immediate – pity, anger, frustration, sadness, and perhaps with a sort of frustrated desire to do something about the situation – a compassionate response. As Aristotle (1926 ) put it (line 1385b): Let compassion then be a kind of pain excited by the sight of evil, deadly or painful, which befalls one who does not deserve it, an evil which one might expect to come upon oneself or one of one’s friends, and when it seems near. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nursing Philosophy Wiley

Compassionate strangers

Nursing Philosophy , Volume 8 (2) – Apr 1, 2007

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1466-7681
eISSN
1466-769X
DOI
10.1111/j.1466-769X.2007.00308.x
pmid
17374067
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Abstract

The war started suddenly and, within days, hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed the border from Lebanon into the security of Syria looking for safety. Many were supported by Syrian families and lived with them, others took the next plane to the West, and some were housed in converted summer camps of the youth movement in Syria. After a few weeks the war ended, as suddenly as it began, and the refugees returned to what was left of their homes. This is not the accustomed image in the West of refugees where the pictures are those provided by the media, usually images coming from Africa, showing people from already desperately poor countries descending into even worse conditions. The emotional response is immediate – pity, anger, frustration, sadness, and perhaps with a sort of frustrated desire to do something about the situation – a compassionate response. As Aristotle (1926 ) put it (line 1385b): Let compassion then be a kind of pain excited by the sight of evil, deadly or painful, which befalls one who does not deserve it, an evil which one might expect to come upon oneself or one of one’s friends, and when it seems near.

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Published: Apr 1, 2007

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