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Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (Swansea Studies in Philosophy)

By Craig Taylor

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0333987942, 9780333987940
Open Library ID
OL10560124M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2132670 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
165\165
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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