Sympathy : a philosophical analysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Taylor, Craig, 1963- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002. |
| Description: | ix, 155 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Swansea studies in philosophy Swansea studies in philosophy (Palgrave (Firm)) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4740556 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 155 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0333987942 |