Perception, Empathy, and Judgment: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance

by Arne Johan Vetlesen

Book Overview

In Perception, Empathy, and Judgment Arne Johan Vetlesen focuses on the indispensable role of emotion, especially the faculty of empathy, in morality. He contends that moral conduct is severely threatened once empathy is prevented from taking part in an interplay with cognitive faculties (such as abstraction or imagination) in acts of moral perception and judgment. Drawing on developmental psychology, especially British "object relations"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271010126
• ISBN13: 9780271010120
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"