Professional ethics education : studies in compassionate empathy

Author(s)

    • Maxwell, Bruce

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Professional ethics education : studies in compassionate empathy

Bruce Maxwell

Springer, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p.175-191) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Practical ethics training is now a requirement of nearly all professional training programmes. This timely and accessible book provides sustained, critical and multi-disciplinary treatment of the important and much-discussed question of addressing emotional aspects of moral functioning in professional ethics education. It offers practical evidence-based suggestions on how to incorporate the promotion of empathic development into the everyday teaching of professional ethics.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 2: The Disambiguation of 'Empathy': Affective and Cognitive Conceptions.- 3: A Conceptual and Empirical Sketch of Compassionate Empathy.- 4: The Paradox of Compassionate Empathy's Moral Worth.- 5: Compassionate Empathy, Moral Perception and Moral Conscience.- 6: Intermezzo on Moral Emotion Education: Imagination, Imitation and Re-appraisal.- 7: Compassionate Empathy in Professional and Practical Ethics Education.- List of references.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA8592174X
  • ISBN
    • 9781402068881
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [New York]
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 198 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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