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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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.
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.