Is empathy a moral failing?
Paul Bloom's Against Empathy made the case that our instinct to feel with others leads us astray. Others, like Elon Musk, agree.
But Gigla Gonashvili pushes back, arguing that what looks like a weakness is actually our most essential moral foundation.
Gonashvili is a philosopher of lived experience and author of Intermittent Time: The Problem of Identity in Husserl and Proust.
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SUICIDAL EMPATHY? New York mother met a Palestinian asylum seeker at a protest inviting him to move in with her and her 13-year-old daughter. She was learning Arabic, studying Islam, and Sharia Law. Last week he beat and suffocated her to death and fled to the Middle East.