Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom

Book Overview

New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062339346
• ISBN13: 9780062339348
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"