On Amartya Sen’s concept of sympathy

This paper examines Amartya Sen’s concept of sympathy and the oversimplified, ambiguous and sometimes erroneous interpretations of this concept by Sen’s interpreters. In the first section, two types of sympathy can be found in Sen’s ‘Rational fools’ essay ‒ a contemplative and an active type of whic...

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Main Author: Mark Peacock
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Editura ASE Bucuresti 2019-05-01
Series:The Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access: https://jpe.ro/pdf.php?id=8390