Sympathy

A Philosophical Analysis
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-349-43155-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 155 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 220 g

Reihe: Swansea Studies in Philosophy

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

CRAIG TAYLOR is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has contributed a number of articles to learned publications.