Tag: Caring

6 posts

Touching On Care

Filed in:Feminism

--- Below is a set of feminist philosophy books (and one article) that are related to the study of care and human vulnerability. At the end, there is also a section listing the classic works in...

The Anti-Empathy Playbook

Filed in:Currents

A deliberate and strategic effort to redefine and attack empathy has been underway for nearly twenty years. What might initially appear to be isolated critiques of empathy, upon closer examination...

The Meaning of Life? Care.

Filed in:Feminism

--- “Cura (Care) was crossing a river and saw some clay. Thoughtfully, she took it up and began to shape it. Jupiter came along, and she asked him to give it spirit, which he granted. Then they...

Dangerous Feelings

Filed in:Currents

--- This piece examines how Paul Bloom, in his book Against Empathy, uses a rhetorical strategy called dissociation to cut a distinction between cognitive and emotional empathy, to disparage...

Friendship and Philosophy

Filed in:Thought Experiments

Thank you , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. --- Transcript: Hello everyone. Welcome, welcome. This is our first live. I am Mona Mona. I...

Heidegger On What Makes For A Good Friend

Filed in:Existentialism

In the course of giving his account of intersubjectivity (or the Being-with others of Mitsein), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) comments on two kinds of concern for the other — a leaping in for and a...