PHIL 3030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emotional Contagion, Implicit Stereotype, Victimless Crime
8 Feb 2018
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The first is cognitive and affective empathy. Cognitive would be to understand the mental states of people, perspective taking. Affective would mean to share the emotions of others. Not sharing them by accident by having an emotion because someone else would have it. Cognitively you can understand the thoughts running through someone"s mind. On the other end of the spectrum we have what other philosophers call perspective taking but he calls it combined empathy (deliberate, conscious) The other thing we can distinguish is how faithful one is to another"s emotions. Emotional mimicry, only sharing another person"s emotions would could as affective empathy. What you would feel if you had more information. Empathy for other philosophers would include what another should feel. Empathy has to be faithful to what one is feeling. Kauppinen says that hume"s empathy is a precondition for moral approbation. Moral approbation and disapprobation are conative states. The empathy causes us to feel approval or disapproval.
