319:(Palgrave, 2006), Lampert offers an analysis of the concept of "compassion" in three cultures for which the term "compassion", is an inherent part of their self-image: Christian-Catholic culture, which developed a narrative of compassion in the sense of participation in agony (of Christ), complementary and contrasting the biblical narrative; Buddhist tradition, where compassion appears as a universal tendency to prevent suffering, and as a state of consciousness closely related to enlightenment; and the secular modern European tradition which demands social responsibility and state-welfare as a substitute to religious compassion. Lampert's analysis demonstrates how the ideological history of each of these traditions, teaches the distancing and restraining of compassion, to the point where it almost impossible to legitimize a compassionate action. The critical analysis indicates how each of these three traditions, not only did not fulfill its "promise of compassion" and its obligation for the welfare of the weak in society, but actually served as a basis for rejection and exclusion.
300:. After graduating from high school and military service, Lampert began working with at-risk children and teens. He has worked as an instructor, teacher, lecturer, counselor and director, in various frameworks straddling education and welfare. In 1999, Lampert has founded (along with his work-colleague Gady Avidan), a social-support-network for underprivileged children which attempts to create real change in the lives of children (Jewish and Arab), from exclusion to social inclusion, in various locations in Israel. The network is working to combat the plight of children through "generative mentoring", i.e., a unique model of creating change through an adult-child interaction. The generative-mentoring model relies on the social theory and epistemology proposed in Lampert's writings. Lampert completed his PhD in philosophy and comparative study of Cultures at
333:(published in Hebrew 2008), Lampert extends his social criticism. He analyses the post-modern education system and argues that social exclusion, alienation and failure is an inherent part of a social reproduction ideology. The critical analysis reveals the gap between the smug self-image of those engaged in education, and the harsh and violent face of the system, of which teachers are victims as much as students. As an alternative, Lampert offers a return to the roots of educational practice; i.e. the human-encounter based on our natural empathy, especially in its radical form. This type of resistance, means a radical change in school, that like other cultural institutions, is built to keep us all away from authentic human encounter.
343:(Tel Aviv University Press 2022), Lampert offers a comprehensive philosophical and historical analysis of the concept of empathy in its various theoretical manifestations. Lampert's analysis expands the classical phenomenological position, that identifies empathy with a direct perception of the mental states of others and adds to it caring as a necessary identifier. According to Lampert, the requirement for conceptualization that subordinates our perceptions to language and culture, "subverts" and weakens our ability to sense others, but at the same time allows for the formulation of an moral position, which Lampert identifies with the Ethics of care.
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