Keith Ansell-Pearson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. He was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Malawi (1985-87) and Lecturer in Modern Political Thought at Queen Mary College of London University (1988-1993). In 2013-14 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University.David James is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His publications include Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (2023), Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx (2021), and Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and Necessity (2013). He is also the editor of A Critical Guide to Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (2017) and co-editor (with Günter Zöller) of The Cambridge Companion to Fichte (2016).

This text makes a valuable contribution to theoretical treatments of the ethical dimensions of human emotion. ...Recommended

• Introduction 1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean 2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity) 3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics 4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion 5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics 6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions 7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity 8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy 9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments 10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring 11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic 12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaardâs Works of Love 13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy 14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs Theory of Coldness Reconstructed 15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions

Keith Ansell-Pearson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. He was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Malawi (1985-87) and Lecturer in Modern Political Thought at Queen Mary College of London University (1988-1993). In 2013-14 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University.David James is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His publications include Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (2023), Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx (2021), and Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and Necessity (2013). He is also the editor of A Critical Guide to Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (2017) and co-editor (with Günter Zöller) of The Cambridge Companion to Fichte (2016).

This text makes a valuable contribution to theoretical treatments of the ethical dimensions of human emotion. ...Recommended

• Introduction 1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean 2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity) 3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics 4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion 5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics 6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions 7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity 8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy 9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments 10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring 11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic 12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaardâs Works of Love 13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy 14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs Theory of Coldness Reconstructed 15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions

Keith Ansell-Pearson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. He was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Malawi (1985-87) and Lecturer in Modern Political Thought at Queen Mary College of London University (1988-1993). In 2013-14 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University.David James is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His publications include Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (2023), Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx (2021), and Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and Necessity (2013). He is also the editor of A Critical Guide to Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (2017) and co-editor (with Günter Zöller) of The Cambridge Companion to Fichte (2016).

This text makes a valuable contribution to theoretical treatments of the ethical dimensions of human emotion. ...Recommended

• Introduction 1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean 2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity) 3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics 4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion 5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics 6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions 7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity 8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy 9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments 10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring 11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic 12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaardâs Works of Love 13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy 14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs Theory of Coldness Reconstructed 15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions