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Sympathy

A Philosophical Analysis

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Craig Taylor
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Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 1-6

  3. Sympathy

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 7-21

  4. Rational Altruism

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 22-40

  5. Character

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 41-58

  6. Moral Incapacity

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 59-75

  7. An Attitude Towards a Soul

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 76-95

  8. Sympathy and Other Primitive Responses

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 96-112

  9. Sympathy and Understanding

    • Craig Taylor
    Pages 113-134

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 135-155
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About this book

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.

About the author

CRAIG TAYLOR is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has contributed a number of articles to learned publications.

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