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Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (Swansea Studies in Philosophy)
Sympathy A Philosophical Analysis - Swansea Studies in Philosophy Author:Craig Taylor It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature. This book presents a fundamental challenge to this view. Specifically, it argues that sympathy, understood as an immediate and unthinking response to another's suffering, plays a constitutive role in our con... more »ception of what it is to be human, and specifically in that conception of human life on which anything we might call a moral life depends.« less