Empathy
Overthink
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The Role of Empathy in Morality
When I'm facing a work of art, I'm not seeing a bunch of different paint colors on a canvas. And the same is true when I experience another person. One of the benefits of thinking about empathy as something that happens below the level of language and rationality and imagination is that it really opens the door for thinking about whether other animals might be capable of experiencing empathy - which historically anthropologists have almost universally denied.
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