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Against empathy : the case for rational compassion /

"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Paul, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Edition:First Ecco paperback edition.
Subjects:
Empathy.
Caring.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology.
Compassion.
Entscheidungsfindung.
Rationalität.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Other people's shoes
  • The anatomy of empathy
  • Doing good
  • The politics of empathy
  • Intimacy
  • Empathy as the foundation of morality
  • Violence and cruelty
  • Age of reason.