Empathy / Derek Matravers.
How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour' Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful new book, Derek Matravers negotia...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Some historical preliminaries
- Some conceptual preliminaries
- Empathy as simulation
- A priori and a posteriori empathy
- Re-enacting the thoughts of others
- Empathy and the emotions
- Empathy and ethics
- Empathy and aesthetics.