Overview
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: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1349431559
- | ISBN-13: 9781349431557
