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.
So you wouldn't accept that a psychopath could be good at understanding how they would be viewed by other people - they'd lack social intelligence?
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Yeah, I think that psychopath stuff is fundamentally misguided. The psychopath lacks impetus (conatus, motivation) as a result of their moral insight, they don’t lack the moral insight per se. Similar of empathy, they have it, but just does not morally motivate them!
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Well, that's going to be a contentious - albeit interesting - claim! I'm not sure we mean quite the same thing when we talk about empathy.
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