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Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis

Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis

Paperback

Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 1349431559
ISBN13: 9781349431557
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 21 2002
Pages: 155
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature. This book presents a fundamental challenge to this view. Specifically, it argues that sympathy, understood as an immediate and unthinking response to another's suffering, plays a constitutive role in our conception of what it is to be human, and specifically in that conception of human life on which anything we might call a moral life depends.

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