C. Taylor

Gebundenes Buch

Sympathy

A Philosophical Analysis

Beschreibung

It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature. This book presents a fundamental challenge to this view. Specifically, it argues that sympathy, understood as an immediate and unthinking response to another's suffering, plays a constitutive role in our conception of what it is to be human, and specifically in that conception of human life on which anything we might call a moral life depends.

Autor

CRAIG TAYLOR is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has contributed a number of articles to learned publications.

Produktdetails

• Swansea Studies in Philosophy
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-98794-0
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780333987940
• ISBN-10: 0333987942
• Artikelnr.: 21327210