Empathic emotions and justice in society |
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Authors: | Martin L Hoffman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, Room 550, 10003 New York, New York |
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Abstract: | Empathy is defined as an affect more appropriate to another's situation than to one's own. The paper (i) summarizes different modes of empathic affect arousal; (ii) shows how empathic affect may interact with social-cognitive development, to produce four levels of empathy development; (iii) suggests that causal attributions may transform empathic affect into sympathy, guilt, and empathic anger, which are major moral affects; (iv) discusses how these affects may influence moral judgment and behavior; (v) points up empathic morality's limitations and the need to embed empathy in relevant moral principles; (vi) discusses possible links between empathy and justice principles, with special focus on Rawls; (vii) illustrates the interplay of empathy, moral judgment, and justice; and (viii) suggests that moral principles may become hot cognitions. |
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Keywords: | empathy guilt justice morality principles sympathy |
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