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Empathy’s purity, sympathy’s complexities; De Waal, Darwin and Adam Smith

Frans de Waal’s view that empathy is at the basis of morality directly seems to build on Darwin, who considered sympathy as the crucial instinct. Yet when we look closer, their understanding of the central social instinct differs considerably. De Waal sees our deeply ingrained tendency to sympathize...

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Autor principal: van der Weele, Cor
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21765569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-011-9248-4