Epistemic Virtue and Vice

Reliabilism, Responsibilism, and Personalism

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ID23182249
AuthorsYong Huang (0000-0001-9166-4037, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages109-130
Publication date2015-10-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMoral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315683935-15
OpenAlexW2946130648
ISBN9781315683935
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited1

This chapter discusses empathy with the unempathic person, or, empathy with the devil, based on Ming Dynasty neo-Confucian Wang Yangming's philosophy. Since Wang's view on this issue is only part of his general view of empathy and cannot be properly understood independently. Wang relates the idea of being in one body with myriad things to humanity, ren, the most important virtue, as well as the most important constituent of human nature, in Confucianism. An person may indeed have such feeling in the situation described. However, in the empathic anger, while the empathy is directed to the victim and the person does not feel any anger at the victim, the anger is directed to the culprit and the person does not have empathy with the culprit. Wang Yangming makes a similar argument that an person is concerned with both people's external wellbeing and their internal wellbeing: Superior persons in the world let their conscience shine.

Epistemology · Personalism · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Philosophy

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