Because of certain biases built into our brain, using empathy as a guide instead of rationality, rules, and reason typically leads to us making inferior social and political choices. He is specifically talking about the Bill Clinton "I feel your pain" kinda empathy, not the I can identify that you are in pain, cognitive psychology. They are just saying we need to still examine our character heroes and assumptions about what really is a good.īasically, Paul Bloom (a professor of psychology at Yale) is arguing that using empathy to make decisions about policy, etc., is perhaps a bad idea. Bloom's 'Against Empathy' fits into the same category as William A.
It was a catchy title, and fairly interesting little treatise, and it made me think. I remember first reading a book called In Defense of Elitism years ago after my freshman year in college. I'm also a fan of books that flip certain general assumptions about what is an absolute good. I'm a sucker for pop psychology or moral philosophy or moral politics books. Empathy betrays us only when we take it as a moral guide." "Empathy is what makes us human it's what makes us both subjects and objects of moral concern.
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