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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