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Empathy is widely discussed, both in philosophy and more generally. One might ask what empathy itself is and how it relates to specific emotions, such as sympathy. This volume is concerned with theories of emotions that can be described as empathetic, either because they presuppose the human capacity for empathy or because they are essential to how empathy operates. By exploring how Western philosophers-from Ancient Greece up to the twentieth century-have understood these emotions, it becomes possible not only to gain a deeper understanding of certain empathetic emotions and their relation to the concept of empathy, but to also see how these emotions are placed within a broader moral, social, or religious context. Taking into account this context is essential when it comes to engaging with a number of compelling questions. Does sympathy provide an adequate basis for a theory of human sociability and fellowship? What roles do compassion and pity play in our moral lives, and in the formation of the practical identities of human beings? Can the altruistic character and concern for others that is traditionally ascribed to certain emotions be reconciled with competing values like self-love and the self-directedness of its concerns? Empathetic Emotions in the History of Philosophy provides answers to these important questions.
Contents
Introduction
1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity)
3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics
4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion
5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics
6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions
7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity
8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy
9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments
10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring
11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic
12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaardâs Works of Love
13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy
14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs Theory of Coldness Reconstructed
15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions
