The Dark Sides of Empathy / / Fritz Breithaupt.
Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Self-Loss
- 2. Painting in Black and White
- 3. False Empathy, Filtered Empathy
- 4. Empathetic Sadism
- 5. Vampiristic Empathy
- Epilogue: Empathy between Morality and Aesthetics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index