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    It is not the case that Cultivating empathy has unique revolutionary powers to transform a world in crisis

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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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    • 1.Empathy is a force that can be cultivated
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    • 2.Cultivating empathy produces transformative societal change
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