Being me being you : Adam Smith and empathy /
Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. Yet how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker delves into the work of Adam Smith to draw out an un...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Varieties of empathy
- Smithian empathy
- Updating Smith
- Empathy and culture
- Empathy and affectional ties
- Utilitarianism and the limits of empathy
- Empathy and the limits of utilitarianism (I)
- Empathy and the limits of utilitarianism (II)
- Empathy and demonization.