caa a22 4500 606237801 CHVBK 20210128101255.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9525-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9525-9 Song Yujia Philosophy Department, Purdue University, Beering Hall, 100 N. University St, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut How to Be a Proponent of Empathy [Elektronische Daten] [Yujia Song] A growing interest across disciplines in the nature of empathy has sparked a debate over the place of empathy in morality. Proponents are eager to capitalize on the apparent close connection between empathy and altruism, while critics point to serious problems in our exercise of empathy - we are naturally biased, empathize too much or too little, and prone to making all sorts of mistakes in empathizing. The proponents have a promising response, that it is not empathy simpliciter, but empathy in some "proper” form, that does the work they claim for it. This paper aims to propose a cautiously optimistic position for the proponent by rethinking the suggested approach. I argue that empathy plays two important roles in morality, one epistemic and the other relational, but the proponent must be careful not to exaggerate the contribution that empathy, even in its "proper” form, can make to our moral life. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Empathy nationallicence Care nationallicence Understanding nationallicence Morality nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 437-451 1386-2820 18:3<437 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9525-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9525-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Song Yujia Philosophy Department, Purdue University, Beering Hall, 100 N. University St, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 437-451 1386-2820 18:3<437 2015 18 10677