Against empathy : the case for rational compassion
Paul Bloom (Author)
"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In [this book], Bloom [posits that] empathy [is] one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices"--Dust jacket flap
eBook, English, 2016
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY, 2016
1 online resource (285 pages) : illustration
9780062339355, 0062339354
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