- Compassion, Caring, Empathy, New York Times reviewed
"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it.
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Spare, contemporary, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Bloom
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062339331
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