Empathy and Ethics
Magnus Englander, "Empathy and Ethics"
English | ISBN: 1538154102 | 2022 | 544 pages | EPUB, PDF | 917 KB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1538154102 | 2022 | 544 pages | EPUB, PDF | 917 KB + 3 MB
This book represents a unique indispensable reflection on the interconnection between empathy and ethics. To what extent is it right to be empathetic? Can empathy be unethical? Or is there an ethical obligation to be empathetic? Do we educate our citizens and train our professionals to use the right form of empathy?
Phenomenological ethics is a relatively new approach to ethics whose emphasis is put on the description of the lived-experience and the ethical phenomenon. The essays offer phenomenological descriptions of the thorny problem pertaining to the interconnection of empathy and ethics essential for professionals and scholars of different fields, such as philosophy, psychiatry, health science, psychology, and sociology.
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