Sympathy - A Philosophical Analysis

Informationen zum Autor CRAIG TAYLOR is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has contributed a number of articles to learned publications. Klappentext 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 conception 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. Zusammenfassung 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 conception 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Sympathy Rational Altruism Character Moral Incapacity An Attitude Towards a Soul Sympathy and Other Primitive Responses Sympathy and Understanding Appendix: A Utilitarian Theory? Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction Sympathy Rational Altruism Character Moral Incapacity An Attitude Towards a Soul Sympathy and Other Primitive Responses Sympathy and Understanding Appendix: A Utilitarian Theory? Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: C Taylor, C. Taylor, Craig Taylor, Taylor Craig
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2002
• EAN: 9780333987940
• ISBN: 978-0-333-98794-0
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy; Swansea Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Religion, B, Ethics, Religion: general, Ethics & moral philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Analysis (Philosophy), Analytic Philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism