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Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
The chapter titled “Against Prescriptions: Why Values?” explores the perplexing question of why humans need and use values, even though values...
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Ever More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?
This chapter delves into the complexity of moral values and their role in contemporary society. The author questions the claim that values are...
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Excursus I: Values and Human Rights
This chapter, “Values and Human Rights,” explores the complex interplay between human rights, values, and societal dynamics within the European...
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Empathy and Moral Judgement
The chapter ‘Empathy and Moral Judgment’ investigates the connection that exists between empathy and moral judgment by highlighting the epistemic...
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Conclusion
I wrote this book with the intention of making it understandable and interesting both for laypeople and for researchers from other disciplines, in...
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A Brief Historical Reconstruction
In this chapter, the genesis of empathy as a word is briefly traced. In particular, it is the Theodor Lipps' work on the subject and his insistence...
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Anti-empathism: Paul Bloom
In the chapter ‘Anti-empathism: Paul Bloom’, the author offers a description and an in-depth analysis of the criticisms made to empathy by Paul...
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Empathy and Virtue
This chapter is dedicated to the in-depth analysis of the link between empathy and virtue. The main claim is that empathy can be considered as a...
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Empathy and Moral Development
This chapter addresses the issue of whether empathy is a necessary feature for the development of morality. Scholars who deny this role usually tend...
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Overcoming Empathy’s Judgemental Biases
In ‘Overcoming Empathy’s Judgemental Biases’ is the topic of the supposed biases empathy inherently has which is scrutinised in depth. In particular,...
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Complementarity and Quantum Cognition
The idea of complementarity is one of the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Yet, the idea was originally developed in William James’ psychology of...
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Examining Sexual Assault Investigations
This chapter focuses on a sexual assault investigation as it provides a general overview of a common criminal investigation. While no two...
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Improving Ethical Reasoning
This chapter applies the insights of the previous chapters to discuss the development of education tools that can foster ethical reasoning skills....
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Perfect and Imperfect Sympathy in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
This chapter shows in what sense sympathy would be central to understanding Smith’s conception of harmony between oneself and others. Specifically,...
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A Semantic Overview of ‘Nature’ and ‘Natural’ in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
This chapter aims to provide an overview of the meaning of the terms ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ as used by Smith in his moral philosophy in relation to...
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Conclusions
This conclusion provides a summary of the work that has been done, shows the achievements of the book, outlines the problems still open and suggests...
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Interpreting Aristotle’s Concept of the Common Good
Providing a definitive interpretation of many ideas in Aristotle’s moral and political works has proved to be a difficult task for his commentators,...
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Old Wine in New Wineskins: William Ockham and the Common Good in Context
The present chapter investigates the use of the expression bonum commune in two political works by William of Ockham: the third part of the Dialogus...
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Research Questions, Aims and Expected Results
This chapter outlines the aim of this work, the questions that motivated it, the structure of the book and the expected results. In particular, the...