Kant on Rational Sympathy by Benjamin Vilhauer

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This Element explains Kant's distinction between rational sympathy and natural sympathy. In rational sympathy, we freely use the imagination to step into others' first-person perspectives and associate imagined intuitional contents with the concepts others use to communicate their feelings. This prompts feelings in us that are like their feelings.

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Kant on Rational Sympathy by Benjamin Vilhauer

This Element explains Kant's distinction between rational sympathy and natural sympathy. Rational sympathy is regulated by practical reason and is necessary for adopting as our own those ends of others which are contingent from the perspective of practical rationality. Natural sympathy is passive and can prompt affect and dispose us to act wrongly. Sympathy is a function of a posteriori productive imagination. In rational sympathy, we freely use the imagination to step into others' first-person perspectives and associate imagined intuitional contents with the concepts others use to communicate their feelings. This prompts feelings in us that are like their feelings.
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ISBN 13 9781009371179
ISBN 10 1009371177
Title Kant on Rational Sympathy
Author Benjamin Vilhauer
Series Elements In The Philosophy Of Immanuel Kant
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2025-01-02
Number of pages 74
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