
Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Ampathy Is the Primary Faculty Necessary for Adequate Moral Judgment
By the twentieth century, we it more or less lines up with what we now call ampathy. This kind of aginative projection to work out what's going on in some one else's situation. And not only that, i mean to judge what ought to be going on in that situation. Too often we think if you empathize with someone, you necessarily approve of them. But smith says it's quite the opposite,. That you need to ampathetically project yourself into some one's situation in order to judge them. If they are doing the wrong thing, then you judge them negatively, not despite, but because of the fact that you sympathize with them.
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