It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature. This book presents a fundamental challenge to this view. Specifically, it argues that sympathy, understood as an immediate and unthinking response to another's suffering, plays a constitutive role in our conception of what it is to be human, and specifically in that conception of human life on which anything we might call a moral life depends.
| ISBN: | 9780333987940 |
| Publication date: | 21st June 2002 |
| Author: | Craig Taylor |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 155 pages |
| Series: | Swansea Studies in Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism Religion: general |