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    Proper empathy can be understood broadly to include vicar... — Carmelics
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    Proper empathy can be understood broadly to include vicarious sharing of non-affective states such as beliefs and desires, not only affective states.

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    • 1.Some authors, especially those influenced by the epistemic conception of empathy, extend empathy beyond affective reenactment.
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    • 2.Adam Smith already exemplified a broad understanding of empathy that encompasses non-affective states.
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    • 1.Empathy is constitutively tied to affective resonance: without felt experience, what occurs is simulation or inference, not empathy proper.
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    • 2.Phenomenologists like Husserl and Stein define empathy (Einfühlung) as the direct apprehension of another's lived experience, which is inherently affective.
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    • 3.Extending empathy to beliefs and desires dissolves its conceptual distinctiveness, collapsing it into the broader category of mindreading or perspective-taking.
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    • 1.Adam Smith's concept of 'sympathy' in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is explicitly grounded in imagining oneself in another's situation, not vicarious belief-sharing.
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    • 2.Recruiting Smith as support for a broad, non-affective conception of empathy misreads a thinker who consistently anchors the concept in passions and sentiments.
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    • 3.Historical precedent cannot establish conceptual adequacy: even if Smith used a broad conception, this does not show that conception correctly tracks what empathy is.
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    Affective and proper Empathy: More narrowly and properly understood, empathy in the affective sense is the vicarious sharing of an affect. Authors however differ in how strictly they interpret the phrase of vicariously sharing an affect. For some, it requires that the empathizers and the persons they empathize with need to be in very similar affective states (Coplan 2011; de Vignemont and Singer 2006; Jacob 2011). For Hoffman, on the other hand, it is an emotional response requiring only “the in
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