Sounds nice, but it's likely bollox. No reason to suppose empathy will engender a view from nowhere. Might well do the opposite. (Empathy is a terribly bad foundation for moral judgement, for example.)https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/979782811820417024 …
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Maybe, lacking empathy may not lead to universalising our own experience or perspectives; but without empathy, I doubt we would ever get beyond our own experience and perspectives.
I suppose it depends on exactly one means by "empathy" - but I don't think the ability to take the view of the generalized other (to borrow some of G. H. Mead's language) requires the ability to empathize (with people's internal states, etc).
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I think it definitely does! It is only through repeatedly taking the perspective of concrete others (and, prior, learning how to do so), that adopting the perspective of generalised other becomes possible or, indeed, a possibility. Benhabib, and others, innit.
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Maybe. But that's a very broad concept of empathy - imagining myself having the perspective of somebody else (as, for example, in a Piaget 3 mountain situation) doesn't require me to enter their world. It's not empathy in that sense.
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