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Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy - Softcover

Fleischacker, Samuel

 
9780226661896: Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022666189X ISBN 13: 9780226661896
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. But how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker delves into the work of Adam Smith to draw out an understanding of empathy that respects both personal difference and shared humanity.

After laying out a range of meanings for the concept of empathy, Fleischacker proposes that what Smith called “sympathy” is very much what we today consider empathy. Smith’s version has remarkable value, as his empathy calls for entering into the perspective of another—a uniquely human feat that connects people while still allowing them to define their own distinctive standpoints. After discussing Smith’s views in relation to more recent empirical and philosophical studies, Fleischacker shows how turning back to Smith promises to enrich, clarify, and advance our current debates about the meaning and uses of empathy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samuel Fleischacker is LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of many books, including On Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”: A Philosophical Companion and, most recently, The Good and the Good Book: Revelation as a Guide to Life.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022666189X
ISBN 13 
9780226661896
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
230
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