In classroom and both books, the brilliant Dr. While working on my Masters at University of Pennsylvania, he was a guest lecturer and we read his book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Bloom, I read with curiosity his book and have listened to several interviews of him. Bloom posits that we ought to substitute compassion for empathy. Bloom believes that however while well-intentioned, empathy is a poor guide for moral reasoning and that to the extent that individuals and societies make ethical judgments on the basis of empathy, they become less sensitive to the suffering of greater and greater numbers of people. Dr. Through the use of clinical cases and compelling and logical arguments, Dr. Paul Bloom and his new book Against Empathy that calls into question the use of empathy. There has been a recent trend led in part by Yale psychologist Dr. “This blog has explored empathy in depth over the years.
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