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An edition of Empathy and moral development (2000)

Empathy and moral development

implications for caring and justice

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"Contemporary theories have generally focused on the behavioral, cognitive, or emotional dimensions of prosocial moral development. In this volume, Martin L. Hoffman brings these three dimensions together while providing the first comprehensive account of prosocial moral development in children. The main concept is empathy - one feels what is appropriate for another person's situation, not one's own.

Hoffman discusses empathy's role in five moral situations: one harms someone, one is an innocent bystander, one blames oneself though innocent, one must choose which among several victims to help, or one is torn between contradictory caring and justice concerns.

The book's focus is empathy's contribution to altruism and compassion for others in physical, psychological, or economic distress; feelings of guilt over harming someone; feelings of anger at others who do harm; feeling of injustice when others do not receive their due."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
331

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Moral development Empathy Caring Justice
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Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice
November 12, 2001, Cambridge University Press
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Empathy and moral development: implications for caring and justice
2000, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-317) and indexes.

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Cambridge, U.K, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.2/5
Library of Congress
BF723.M54 H64 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 331 p. ;
Number of pages
331

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL39814M
ISBN 10
052158034X
LCCN
99029669
OCLC/WorldCat
41311036, 476991170
LibraryThing
12220
Goodreads
4008806

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Work ID
OL23405W

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344p. ; 23cm

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