On the Power and Limits of Empathy.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Part I: What Is Empathy?
- Chapter 1: A Brief Historical Reconstruction
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2: The Way to a Definition
- 2.1 A Phenomenological View on Empathy
- 2.2 Our Working Definition
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: A Taxonomy of Empathy
- 3.1 Low-Level Empathy
- 3.2 High-Level Empathy
- 3.2.1 A Special Case of High-Level Empathy: Narrative Empathy
- Bibliography
- Part II: Morals Without Empathy?
- Chapter 4: Anti-empathism: Jesse Prinz
- 4.1 Unnecessity of Empathy for Moral Judgement
- 4.2 Unnecessity of Empathy for Moral Development
- 4.3 Unnecessity of Empathy for Moral Motivation and Conduct
- 4.4 Other Intrinsic Shortcomings of Empathy
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5: Anti-empathism: Paul Bloom
- 5.1 Empathy as a Spotlight
- 5.2 Empathy as Biased
- 5.3 Empathy as Corrosive
- 5.4 Rational Compassion
- Bibliography
- Part III: Moral Judgement
- Chapter 6: Empathy and Moral Judgement
- 6.1 The Epistemic Role of Empathy
- 6.2 The Effects of (Empathic) Lingering
- 6.3 The 'Moralising Power' of Empathy
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7: Empathy and Moral Perception
- 7.1 Moral Perception in Lawrence Blum
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8: Overcoming Empathy's Judgemental Biases
- 8.1 Intergroup Bias
- 8.2 A Literary Case
- 8.3 Empathy, Receptivity, and the Disclosure of Values
- 8.4 The Beneficial Effect of Empathy on Moral Judgement
- 8.5 Empathy and Representative Thinking
- 8.6 Is Empathy Intrinsically Biased?
- Bibliography
- Part IV: Moral Development
- Chapter 9: Empathy and Moral Development
- 9.1 Empathy and Imitation
- 9.2 Learning Moral Rules Thanks to Empathy
- 9.3 The Case of the Golden Rule and the Importance of the 'Receptivity'
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10: Moral Education: An Alternative to the Anti-empathic Model.
- 10.1 The Anti-egocentric Power of Empathy
- 10.2 Empathy and Psychopathy
- 10.3 Empathy and Autism
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11: Empathy and the Acquiring of a Caring Perspective
- 11.1 Empathy and Receptivity
- 11.2 The 'Circularity' of Empathy
- 11.3 Developing a Moral Character by Means of Empathy
- 11.4 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Part V: Moral Conduct and Motivation
- Chapter 12: Empathy and Moral Conduct and Motivation
- 12.1 How the Shortcomings of Empathy Are Also Its Strengths
- 12.2 Generalising Empathy
- 12.3 Is Empathy Necessarily Biased?
- Bibliography
- Chapter 13: Empathy and Virtue
- 13.1 Empathy and Phronesis
- 13.2 Empathy with Positive Emotions
- 13.3 Empathy as a Virtue
- 13.4 The Importance of Feeling With
- 13.5 Empathy's Role Within a Rationalist Ethics
- 13.6 Empathy and Moral Perfection
- Bibliography
- Chapter 14: Empathy and the Importance of Affectivity
- 14.1 Empathy and Emotional Perceiving
- 14.2 The Case of Death Penalty: How Empathy Can Change Our Mentality
- 14.3 Empathy and Import
- Bibliography
- Chapter 15: Lack of Empathy and Dehumanisation
- 15.1 The Distancing Method
- 15.2 Shame and Empathy
- 15.3 To See and to Be Seen
- 15.4 Being-with Others
- 15.5 Empathy and Being in the Presence of the Other
- 15.6 Lack of Empathy and the Case of Cruelty and Brutality
- 15.7 The Dangers of (Moral) Indifference
- Bibliography
- Chapter 16: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.