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II - Empathy, Sympathy and Concern

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Neil Roughley
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
Thomas Schramme
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University of Liverpool
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Forms of Fellow Feeling
Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency
, pp. 57 - 106
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Print publication year: 2018

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