6/10/2023 0 Comments Against empathy![]() This may seem pedantic, but my quibble was substantive: when we speak of empathizing with another person, we refer to gaining a deeper understanding of their situation, their emotional state of mind, ‘spending a day in their shoes’. Such is my passion that I once sat down a close friend of mine (you can imagine her patience) and attempted to sketch out the old sympathy-empathy divide on a graph. Yet when I emerged in the great wide world, everybody around me start discussing empathy like it was the only dog in town. ![]() Admittedly, this has been for childish reasons – in primary school I had been taught the difference between ‘sympathy’ – care for others and understanding somebody else’s pain – and ‘empathy’ – the care of others, and feeling their pain. ![]() ![]() Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, ( Ecco, 2016), 285pp. Angus Reoch considers the dominance of empathy within capitalist ethics. ![]()
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