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Why Does Confucianism Prefer Compassion to Empathy?

Sin Yee Chan Yanming An ; Brian Bruya

New Life for Old Ideas, 2020, p.71

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Why Does Confucianism Prefer Compassion to Empathy?
Autor: Sin Yee Chan
Yanming An ; Brian Bruya
É parte de: New Life for Old Ideas, 2020, p.71
Descrição: Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of studies and discussions of empathy in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, biology, and philosophy. Psychologists such as Daniel Batson, Nancy Eisenberg, Martin Hoffman, and the primatologist Frans de Waal have done landmark work in the study of empathy. In their work, empathy is often praised and seen as contributing to prosocial behaviors.² In philosophy, some exalt empathy as the most important moral emotion. For example, Michael Slote considers empathy as “the cement of the moral universe,” which “ arguably constitutes the basis of both metaethics and normative ethics.”³ On the other hand, philosophers
Editor: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Idioma: Inglês

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