Against empathy : the case for rational compassion /
"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the...
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Other people's shoes
- The anatomy of empathy
- Doing good
- The politics of empathy
- Intimacy
- Empathy as the foundation of morality
- Violence and cruelty
- Age of reason.