Table of Contents
- Introduction
- An Example and a Working Definition
- The Anglo-American Tradition
- Hume’s Many Meanings of “Sympathy”
- Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Sympathy
- Contractualism and Sympathy in Rawls
- Nagel’s Incomplete Version of Empathy
- Empathy as a Moral Criterion in Slote’s Ethics of Caring
- The Continental Tradition
- Nietzsche’s Empathy of Smell Complements His Suspicion
- The Challenge to Empathy of the Event of the Holocaust
- Ethics Against Empathy in Levinas
- Empathy in the Context of Psychoanalysis and Ethics
- A Common Root of Empathy and Ethics
- References and Further Reading