Empathy and Morality

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Empathy and Morality is written by Heidi Lene Maibom and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199372845 (ISBN 10) and 9780199372843 (ISBN 13).

Empathy's centrality to morality is heavily debated. Many religious and philosophical traditions have favoured empathy, sympathy, or compassion as key to moral thought, conduct, or motivation. This collection brings together original papers in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and neuroscience to give a comprehensive overview of the issue, and includes an extensive survey of empathy and empathy-related emotions. It is distinctive in focusing on the moral import of empathy and sympathy.