From: Michelle Anderson (michelle@barrymenasherealtors.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 11:44:54 MST
I think that empathy (as in the Virtue) and the emotional involvement it
suggests is a detached sort of emotion, equally applicable to all.
Perhaps in considering rationality and reason as companions to empathy,
we can conceptualize it as an even-handed interest in the human
condition. (or non-human, depending on your interests) Only when
empathy is applied without objectivity is there a risk of emotional
irrationality.
-Michelle
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