Empathy: Emotional, Ethical and Epistemological Narratives

Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar (MA in Philosophy, 2006; National Prize in Philosophy, 2008; MA in Teachers Training, 2008) is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Philosophy at the Logic and Theoretical Philosophy Department (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He holds a PhD (2014) with an European Mention awarded by U.N.E.D. (Spain). He received the degree of Doktor der Philosophie from the Technische Universität zu Berlin (2014) as well. Amongst his various published materials, Deuda y legado en la filosofía de la Historia de Schiller [Debt and Legacy in Schiller’s Philosophy of History] (Herder, 2018) is his latest monograph.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from OxfordRicardo Gutiérrez Aguilar2 In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and RevolutionJosefa Ros Velasco3 Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional SufferingVictoria Aizkalna4 From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume’s Moral PhilosophyGerardo López Sastre5 Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral Psychology of pitiéNina Lex6 Empathy in Education: the Successful TeacherGiovanna Costantini7 Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological JourneyIrina Ionita8 Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology ClinicJudy Rollins9 Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles’ AjaxChristopher J. Staley10 Empathy in Experimental NarrativesBaris Mete11 On the Bearability of Others Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its JustificationRicardo Gutiérrez Aguilar12 The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an ExplorationPaulus Pimomo13 Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of ‘Empathic Unsettlement’Rosa E. Belvedresi14 Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global JusticeJohannes RohbeckIndex of SubjectsIndex of Authors