The Empathetic Emotions in the History of Philosophy
The Empathetic Emotions in the History of Philosophy
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Author(s): Ansell-Pearson, Keith
ISBN No.: 9780192856722
Pages: 336
Year: 202506
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 165.68
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Introduction1. The Early History of 'Natural' Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, Brooke Holmes2. Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity), Matthew Sharpe3. Towards 'a merely excusable life': Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigne's Ethics, Christopher Edelman4. The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion, Ryan Patrick Hanley5. From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinoza's Ethics, Kasper Kristensen6. Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions, Jacqueline Taylor7. Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity, David James8.


Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy, Remy Debes9. Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments, Olivia Bailey10. Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring, Allen Wood11. Schopenhauer's Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic, Sandra Shapshay12. The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaard's Works of Love, Sharon Krishek13. Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy, James Jardine14. Education Towards Empathy: Adorno's Theory of Coldness Reconstructed, James Gordon Finlayson15. Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions, Lissa McCullough.



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