• 1. Introduction; 2. The Distinction Between Rational and Natural Sympathy; 3. A Debate about Translating Doctrine of Virtue §§34-5, and a Concern about Passivity; 4. Sympathy and the Imagination; 5. Putting Ourselves in Others' Places; 6. Correctly Communicating Feeling; 7. What Problem in Kant's Ethics is Solved by Rational Sympathy?; 8. Responding to Exclusionists, and Distinguishing Adopting and Promoting Ends; 9. How Rational Sympathy Allows Adoption of Merely Permissible Ends; 10. Sages and Sympathy in Kant's Theory of Friendship; 11. Friendship as an Ideal of Sharing All Our Ends and All Our Feelings; 12. Four Objections to the Rationally Sympathetic Interpretation of Friendship; 13. Sympathy as a Moral Incentive, and its Relationship to Respect; 14. Contemporary and Historical Connections to Empathy; 15. Conclusion; Bibliography.

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