Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis - Hardback

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.

• | Author: C. Taylor
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 155 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0333987942
• | ISBN-13: 9780333987940