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A Taxonomy of Empathy

Published:2023-09-28 Issue: Volume: Page:31-55
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Container-title:On the Power and Limits of Empathy
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Camassa Manuel

Abstract

Abstract‘A Taxonomy of Empathy’ presents a new systematisation for the phenomenon of empathy, based on the difference between what the author calls low-level empathy and high-level empathy. The first one is a form of direct, unmediated, conceptually poor, and intuitive kind of empathy which does not require the use of imagination and is akin to the concept of empathy supported by many phenomenologists, the second one is instead based on the use of imagination, mental simulations, and narratives. Narrative empathy is here represented as a subcategory of high-level empathy. The idea of the author is to overcome the rigid separation between advocates of empathy as perspective-taking and proponents of empathy as an unreflective phenomenon.

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Springer Nature Switzerland

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-37522-4_3

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