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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
The Importance of Empathy in Moral Action
To be a good moral agent, you need to have something kicking you into pants, making you do good things. David Hume's point is right: You need some sort of motivation. But I just don't think it has to be empathy. We live amongst people who have low empathy or no empathy. These include people with Asperger's Syndrome and Autism. And they include certain Buddhist monks who exercise compassion but staunch their empathy.
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