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A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of PhilosophyA Rumor of Empathy in Hume’s Many Uses of Sympathy

A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy: A Rumor of Empathy in Hume’s... [David Hume has at least four distinct meanings of “sympathy.” These are mapped in detail to the multi-dimensional aspects of empathic receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and empathic responsiveness. In turn, “sympathy” is engaged as receptivity to affects; as understanding of exemplary other individuals as possibilities (from ancient Roman and Greek times); as the empathic interpretation of the other using a general point of view of an ideal observer; finally, as the optimal response of benevolence. Hume delimits the difference between sympathy and emotional contagion as a double representation. Hume leaves undeveloped the parallel between a “clelicacy of taste” and a “delicacy of sympathy,” the latter capturing today’s “empathy.” The “clelicate” aspects of sympathy are gathered together with “clelicacy of taste” and considered here.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of PhilosophyA Rumor of Empathy in Hume’s Many Uses of Sympathy

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
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978-1-349-50462-6
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10.1057/9781137465344_2
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[David Hume has at least four distinct meanings of “sympathy.” These are mapped in detail to the multi-dimensional aspects of empathic receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and empathic responsiveness. In turn, “sympathy” is engaged as receptivity to affects; as understanding of exemplary other individuals as possibilities (from ancient Roman and Greek times); as the empathic interpretation of the other using a general point of view of an ideal observer; finally, as the optimal response of benevolence. Hume delimits the difference between sympathy and emotional contagion as a double representation. Hume leaves undeveloped the parallel between a “clelicacy of taste” and a “delicacy of sympathy,” the latter capturing today’s “empathy.” The “clelicate” aspects of sympathy are gathered together with “clelicacy of taste” and considered here.]

Published: Sep 23, 2015

Keywords: aesthetic taste; benevolence; David Hume; empathy; ideal observer; narrative; sympathy; the other

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