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Imagining Emotions and Appreciating Fiction

Susan L. Feagin

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (3):485 - 500 (1988)

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On the Suffering of Compassion.Peter Nilsson - 2011 - Philosophia 39 (1):125-144.details Compassion is often described in terms of suffering. This paper investigates the nature of this suffering. It is argued that compassion involves suffering of a particular kind. To begin with a case is made for the negative claim that compassion does not involve an ordinary, or afflictive, suffering over something. Secondly, it is argued that the suffering of compassion is a suffering for someone else’s sake: If you feel compassion for another person, P, then you suffer over P:s suffering for (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
La paradoja de la ficción.Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran - 2021 - Enciclopedia de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica.details Download Export citation Bookmark
Biophilia and Emotive Ethics: Derrida, Alice, and Animals.Jerome Bump - 2014 - Ethics and the Environment 19 (2):57.details In view of recent research can we continue to argue for a superiority over other animals that justifies dominating and exploiting them? This question, now “in the center of ethical discussion,” invites us to “radically reconsider the terms of ethical inquiry” (Rolston 1993, 382). Those terms now include the feelings biophilia and biophobia as well as compassion, sympathy, and empathy. Are we prepared to value not only reason but also emotions that connect us to other animals? If we are to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Ethics of Role-Playing Video Games.Riordan Frost - unknowndetails In this project, I explore the ethics of interactive role-playing video games. After explicating a wide range of issues contained in these games, I argue that they belong in the realm of fiction. Using the theory of Response Moralism, I argue that the emotions we feel in response to fictions, which includes role-playing games, are real and morally assessable. I then present an attack on escapism, which I challenge by arguing that evincing virtues and vices is possible within a video (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Empathy and Emotions: On the Notion of Empathy as Emotional Sharing.Peter Nilsson - 2003 - Dissertation, Umeå Universitydetails The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. If a person, S, has empathy with respect to an emotion of another person, O, then (i) S experiences an emotion that is similar to an emotion that O is currently having, (ii) S’s emotion is caused, in a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The paradox(es) of pitying and fearing fictions.Jennifer Wilkinson - 2000 - South African Journal of Philosophy 19 (1):8-25.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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