“I Don’t Want Your Compassion!”. The Importance of Empathy for Morality.

After the great enthusiasm about the moral potentialities of empathy of the last thirty years, this phenomenon has been recently called into question, if not openly criticized, by both philosophers and psychologists among whom we find Jesse Prinz or Paul Bloom. This paper aims to show why empathy sh...

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Main Author: Manuel Camassa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2019-07-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/221