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The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Cognitive Empathy, Cognitive Intelligence, and Emotional Empathy

Paul Bloom: Empathy means so many different things to different people. He says cognitive empathy is sussing out what's going on in the minds of other people and knowing what they think. If I want to con you or seduce you or bully you, that's also cognitive empathy,. Now finally, it's emotional empathy, which is feeling what another person feels resonating to them. But he argues against emotional empathy as a moral guide.

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