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    Cultivating empathy has unique revolutionary powers to transform a world in crisis

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    • 1.Empathy is a force that can be cultivated
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    • 2.Cultivating empathy produces transformative societal change
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    • 1.Aristotle and the Stoics grounded moral reform in reason and cultivated virtue, not affective identification with others' states.
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    • 2.If structural injustice persists due to institutional arrangements, empathy's transformative power is epiphenomenal to the real causal levers of change.
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    • 3.Attributing revolutionary moral power uniquely to empathy commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness by treating one affective capacity as sufficient for systemic reform.
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    • 1.Empathy is parochial by nature, extending preferentially to those similar or proximate to oneself (Bloom, Against Empathy, 2016).
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    • 2.A faculty that systematically favors in-group members cannot serve as the engine of universal moral transformation.
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    Prima facie, the difficulty of this enterprise consists in squaring a realistic account of human psychology with the universal scope and intersubjective validity of moral judgments, since human motivation and psychological mechanisms seem to be always situational, local, and of rather limited scope. Moreover, as evolutionary psychologists tell us in–group bias seems to be a universal trait of human psychology. One of the most promising attempts to solve this problem is certainly due to the tradi
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