The nature of sympathy
By: Max Scheler ; with a new introduction by Graham McAleer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781351478861; 9781351478878
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Sympathy; Sympathie
Work titles: Wesen und Formen der Sympathie
Description: "The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued that the sympathetic emotions derive from self-interested feelings or instincts. He reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy current in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments, and concludes by outlining a theory of fellow-feeling as the primary source of our knowledge of one another. A prolific writer and a stimulating thinker, Max Scheler ranks second only to Husserl as a leading member of the German phenomenological school. Scheler's work lies mostly in the fields of ethics, politics, sociology, and religion. He looked to the emotions, believing them capable, in their own quality, of revealing the nature of the objects, and more especially the values, to which they are in principle directed."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; EDITOR'S PREFACE; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION ; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION; PART I. FELLOW-FEELING; PREFACE; I. THE 'ETHICS OF SYMPATHY'; II. CLASSIFICATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF FELLOW-FEELING ; (1) Community of feeling; (2) Fellow-feeling; (3) Emotional infection; (4) Emotional identification; III. GENETIC THEORIES OF FELLOW-FEELING; IV. METAPHYSICAL THEORIES; (1) Schopenhauer's theory.; title: (2) The scope of metaphysical theories in general(3) The treatment of love in metaphysical monism; (4) The sense of identity and metaphysics; (5) The unity of life; V. THE SENSE OF UNITY THE COSMOS IN SOME REPRESENTATIVE TEMPERAMENTS OF THE PAST; VI. SYMPATHY AND ITS LAWS OF DEPENDENCE; VII. THE INTERACTION OF THE SYMPATHETIC FUNCTIONS; VIII. THE PHYLOGENETIC ORIGIN AND EXTENSION OF FELLOW-FEELING; IX. PITY AND REJOICING AND THEIR TYPICAL MODES; X. THE MORAL VALUE OF FELLOW-FEELING; XI. THE RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE AND FELLOW-FEELING; PART II. LOVE AND HATRED.; title: I. TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOVE AND HATRED(1) Negative considerations; (2) Positive delineation of the phenomena; II. BASIC VALUES OF LOVE AND THE 'LOVE OF GOODNESS' ; III. LOVE AND PERSONALITY; IV. THE FORMS, MODES AND KINDS OF LOVE AND HATRED; V. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NATURALISTIC THEORY OF LOVE; VI. A CRITIQUE OF THE NATURALISTIC THEORY AND OUTLINE OF A THEORY BASED ON THE PHENOMENA; (1) Love and instinct; (2) The facts concerning the 'perspective of interests'; (3) The problem of 'transference'; (4) The parallel extension of love and hatred; (5) Freud's ontogenetic theory.; title: PART III. OTHER MINDSI. NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE PROBLEMS; II. THE GENERAL EVIDENCE FOR THE 'THOU'; III. THE PERCEPTION OF OTHER MINDS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF NAMES.