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SYMPATHY, EMPATHY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF DARWIN’S MORAL SENSE

by Eric M. Johnson

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Mentions

• • Charles Darwin - sympathy

    • "We are thus impelled to relieve the sufferings of another, in order that our own painful feelings may be at the same time relieved.”

    • “we can only know what others think by putting ourselves in their situation, & then we feel like them.” H

  • Walt Whitman - “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

  • Susan Lanzoni - “offer no one definitive account of empathy, nor a reduction of one kind of empathy experience into another,”

  • Edward Titchener

  • Wilhelm Wundt,

  • E.L. Hinman

  • Gustav Weisse’s 1864 - “die Empathie der epikurischen und die Apathie der stoischen Schule”

  • Theodor Lipps - the emotional experience of art, understanding the mental states of others

  • Alfred Brehm

  • Adam Smith’s - Theory of Moral Sentiments

  • Alexander Bain’s - Mental and Moral Science,

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