naa a22 4500 510789676 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9429-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9429-2 Chanderbhan Stephen Department of Philosophy, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, 14208, Buffalo, NY, USA aut Does Empathy Have Any Place in Aquinas's Account of Justice? [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Chanderbhan] Recent developments in cognitive science have prompted philosophers to speculate about the importance of empathy, the ability to directly apprehend and take on the mental and emotional states of others, in understanding and being motivated by moral norms—particularly moral norms concerning other humans. In this paper, I investigate whether some kind of empathy is involved in Thomas Aquinas's account of the virtue of justice, which he describes as essentially other-directed. I claim that a kind of empathy is involved in Aquinas's notion of friendship and that this notion of friendship is related to justice as a virtue as its goal. Having the virtue of justice is geared towards establishing true friendship, at least in part. In so doing, it is directed towards establishing a sufficient groundwork for genuine empathy. Instances of genuine empathy, then, are approximations of this goal of the work of justice, even if they occur outside the context of a true friendship. Given this, I describe possible roles Aquinas might afford empathy and empathetic emotions in the context of cultivating the virtue of justice, including roles in motivation and knowledge. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Thomas Aquinas nationallicence Justice nationallicence Empathy nationallicence Second-personal relationships nationallicence Emotion nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 273-288 0048-3893 41:2<273 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9429-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9429-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chanderbhan Stephen Department of Philosophy, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, 14208, Buffalo, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 273-288 0048-3893 41:2<273 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer