From ape empathy to human morality?

Borg, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9568 (2014) From ape empathy to human morality? Analysis, 74 (4). pp. 577-587. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: 10.1093/analys/anu080

Abstract/Summary

The idea that empathy provides an important developmental precursor to moral decision making possesses significant conceptual appeal. However, the idea of a necessary, diachronic relation between empathy and morality has been rejected recently (by Prinz 2011, amongst others). This paper reassesses the strength of the claim that empathy is developmentally necessary for (at least some forms of) morality and argues that the position remains a live possibility.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Cognition Research (CCR) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Uncontrolled Keywords	empathy, morality, prosocial behaviour, infant development
Publisher	Oxford University Press
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