![]() ![]() This allows for fascinating insights into the minds of those who process empathy differently, including autistic people.Īgainst Empathy remains digestible to more casual readers too, with Bloom continually challenging our reductive understandings. ![]() We are inherently emotional creatures, but our ability to overrule our emotions means rationality should come just as easily.īloom’s background in cognitive science is apparent in the neuroscientific explanations he gives for empathetic reactions. He begins with an overview of empathy, especially the bias and self interest involved in putting oneself in another’s shoes. As with previous works, the Canadian American professor explores the human condition with a lighthearted tone and broad range of anecdotal evidence, quoting everyone from The Joker to Mother Teresa. The book is Bloom’s fifth, and a follow up to 2013’s Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil. ![]() Throughout Against Empathy ’s six chapters and two interludes, he proposes the use of conscious, deliberate reasoning instead. Paul Bloom thinks of empathy as a sugary soda, tempting and delicious, but ultimately bad for us. From a moral standpoint, we’re better off without it.” “The act of feeling what you think others are feeling is different from being compassionate, from being kind, and most of all, from being good. Name: Against Empathy, The Case for Rational Compassion Author: Paul Bloom Publisher: HarperCollins Amazon rating: 3.6 stars Twitter: paulbloomatyale ![]()
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