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Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Are You So Concerned About Rational Beings as Such?

The value of sympathy has to not just be recognized, but somehow be processed internally in our reflective capacities. The only rational beings we know are human beings and those who reject that a priori approach do what a david miller recently called political philosophy for earthlings. And if somehow you have an ethical system grounded in rational errors, irrationalities, that would be a problem.

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