Is My Feeling Your Pain Bad for Others? Empathy as Virtue Versus Empathy as Fixed Trait
The purpose of this article is to (1) critique the primary arguments given by Paul Bloom and Jesse Prinz against empathy, and (2) to argue instead that empathy is best understood as a virtue that plays an important but complicated role in the moral life. That it is a virtue does not mean that it alw...
| Subtitles: | Is empathy immoral? |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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| In: |
Zygon
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 232-257 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bloom, Paul 1963-
/ Prinz, Jesse J.
/ Empathy
/ Moral act
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Paul Bloom
B emotional empathy B Virtue B Cognitive empathy B Dual processing B Jesse Prinz B Moral Psychology |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (doi) |
