Empathy and emotions: on the notion of empathy as emotional sharing

The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. If a person, S, has empathy with respect to an emotion of another person…

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Aim and Background
1.2 Structure and Content
PART 1. ON THE HISTORY OF THE NOTION OF EMPATHY AS EMOTIONAL SHARING
2. SPINOZA AND HUM
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Spinoza on the Imitation of Affects
2.3 Hume on Sympathy
3. SMITH AND SCHOPENHAUER
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Adam Smith on Sympathy
3.3 Schopenhauer on Compassion
4. EINFÜHLUNG AND EMPATHY
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Einfühlung in German Philosophy and Psychology
4.3 Edith Stein on Einfühlun
4.4 Max Scheler on Empathy and Fellow-Feeling
PART 2. EMPATHY AS EMOTIONAL SHARING
5. CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF EMPATHY
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Empathy and Sharing Emotional States
5.3 Empathy and Imagining Emotions
5.4 Empathy and Off-line Emotions
6. EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONAL STATES
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Emotional States
6.3 Compassion
6.4 Merely Feeling an Emotion………..

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Author: Nilsson, Peter

Source: Umea University

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