In Defense of the Altruistic Interpretation of Sympathy
Similar to its egoist interpretation,the altruistic interpretation of sympathy presupposes that sympathy brings some negative emotion,but the difference is that the altruistic interpretation argues that sympathy can generate altruistic motives even with pain.Hume's sympathy-altruism model distinguishes between limited and extensive sympathies,believing extensive sympathy produces pity that includes concern for others.In con-trast,Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis distinguishes between ego-altruism and pure altruism and consid-ers the latter to correspond to other-oriented empathic concerns.Hume's moral philosophy clarifies the gener-ation mechanism of the selflessness of sympathy,of which Batson provides an empirical defense by means of psychological experiments.
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