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Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis

Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis

Hardcover

Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0333987942
ISBN13: 9780333987940
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jun 21 2002
Pages: 155
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.26
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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