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Commentary on Entangled Empathy by Lori Gruen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Diana Tietjens Meyers
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Abstract

This essay explores four aspects of Gruen's theory. The first section considers her analysis of the concepts of sympathy, pity, and emotional contagion. The second section outlines the main features of her conception of empathy and highlights some worries about empathy that her theory addresses. The third section examines empathy's contributions to moral epistemology. The fourth section queries Gruen's contention that empathy is morally motivating.

Type
Symposium on Lori Gruen's Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals
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Hypatia , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Spring 2017 , pp. 415 - 427
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Copyright © 2017 by Hypatia, Inc.

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