
Sympathy
A Philosophical Analysis
C. Taylor(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 21. June 2002
Book
Hardback
IX, 155 pages
978-0-333-98794-0 (ISBN)
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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Series
Edition
2002
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 155 p.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
353 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-98794-0 (9780333987940)
DOI
10.1057/9780230514010
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
CRAIG TAYLOR is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has contributed a number of articles to learned publications.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Sympathy Rational Altruism Character Moral Incapacity An Attitude Towards a Soul Sympathy and Other Primitive Responses Sympathy and Understanding Appendix: A Utilitarian Theory? Notes Bibliography Index

