Empathy: emotional, ethical and epistemological narratives

In: At the interface/Probing the boundaries volume 123

In: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390904

Abstract

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from Oxford /Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar -- In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and Revolution /Josefa Ros Velasco -- Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional Suffering /Victoria Aizkalna -- From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume's Moral Philosophy /Gerardo López Sastre -- Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Moral Psychology of Pitié /Nina Lex -- Empathy in Education: the Successful Teacher /Giovanna Costantini -- Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological Journey /Irina Ionita -- Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology Clinic /Judy Rollins -- Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles' Ajax /Christopher J. Staley -- Empathy in Experimental Narratives /Barış Mete -- On the Bearability of Others-Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its Justification /Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar -- The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an Exploration /Paulus Pimomo -- Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of 'Empathic Unsettlement' /Rosa E. Belvedresi -- Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global Justice /Johannes Rohbeck -- Back Matter -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.