The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization

by Rob Boddice

In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082052
• ISBN13: 9780252082054
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"