On the Power and Limits of Empathy /

This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Camassa, Manuel (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Subjects:	Ethics. Philosophy of mind. Moral development. Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. Moral Psychology. Moral Development. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part 1: What is Empathy?
1: A Brief Historical Reconstruction
2: The Way to a Definition
3: A Taxonomy of Empathy
4: Conclusions to Part 1
Part 2: Empathy and Morality
5: Anti-Empathism
6: The Bright Side of Empathy
7: Conclusions.