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Laddar... Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassionav Paul Bloom
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I didn't disagree with the author, but I found the book pretty painful to read. It seems repetitive and unnecessarily long to me. Maybe would've been better as an essay than a full book. ( ) Really more like 3.5. Like his last book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17380034-just-babies), this one has a provocative title that almost immediately turns into something less than it purports. The author is against Empathy, but not all empathy or at least only empathy that is defined in a way that he wants it to be. He has a reasonable definition but it may not be what most people think of as empathy. Ultimately he has a point, but again, like the last book, he refers to a rationalism that he puts forward with almost a religious furor. It is still worth reading for some good thought-provoking ideas. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML: New York Post Best Book of 2016 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 AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be 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. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion. Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nationsâ??who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprisonâ??are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, andâ??yesâ??ultimately more moral. Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, AGAINST EMPATHY shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we ca Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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