Swansea Studies in Philosophy: A Philosophical Analysis

Taylor, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-06-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333987940

DOI: 10.1057/9780230514010

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 155