Empathy
Overthink
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The Importance of Empathy in Moral Theory
David Frum: How can we conceptualize empathy on a more fundamental embodied and frankly in my view, much more interesting level than the impasse between imagination and reason. He says he is anti empathy if we're taking empathy to be the basis of morality because he's very convinced by these claims that empathy trades on implicit bias so I do not think empathy is a useful basis for morality. "I find it fascinating that research in the animal cognitive and behavioral sciences is showing that many animals are capable of this emotion" - Frum.
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