具體描述
A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family.
Most people, including many policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to feel the pain and pleasure of others. Yale researcher and author Paul Bloom argues that this is a mistake. Far from leading us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, and draw upon a more distanced compassion.
Based on groundbreaking scientific findings, Against Empathy makes the case that some of the worst decisions that individuals and nations make—from who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to put in prison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced emotions. With clear and witty prose, Bloom demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from culture and education to foreign policy and war. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and ultimately more moral.
Bound to be controversial, Against Empathy shows us that, when it comes to major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our empathetic emotions is often the most compassionate choice we can make.
著者簡介
[加]保羅·布盧姆（Paul Bloom）
● 知名認知心理學傢和發展心理學傢、耶魯大學公開課zui受歡迎教授、TED演講人。
● 布盧姆是耶魯大學zui受歡迎、zui風趣的心理學教授之一。他的心理學導論課是耶魯大學zui受歡迎的公開課之一，全球有上韆萬人觀看、學習這一公開課的視頻。
● 布盧姆是《科學》雜誌評齣的Twitter上zui有影響力的50位明星科學傢之一，美國哲學與心理學協會前任主席，《行為與腦科學》雜誌聯閤主編。
● 布盧姆因齣色的研究和教學工作而獲奬無數。他的文章屢見於《紐約時報雜誌》《自然》《紐約客》《科學》等刊物。著有暢銷書《善惡之源》《快感：為什麼它讓我們欲罷不能》。
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讀後感
The main point of this book as I understand it: strong emotions create strong cognitive bias, which hinders sensible decision making. To me this is a reasonable point to make. However, the title of the book is more extreme than the actual content of the boo...
評分“我必须开宗明义：我并不反对道德、慈悲、善良、爱、做一个好邻居、做一个让人尊敬的人或者做正确的事。实际上，我写这本书就是为了支持以上所有事。我想要让世界变得更好，只是我认为用共情这种方法是行不通的。” 01 — 向常识挑战的一本书。我读后被作者说服了。 共情，就...
評分在日常生活中，我确实会有一些关于共情上面的困惑。即朋友在向我讲述自身的遭遇时，我不是很清楚自己到底要站在什么立场上来发表自己的言论。但是有一点很明确就是很少共情，我大多数是站在局外人的角度讲述利弊，当然这也会带来偶尔的无奈。相比较之下当我自己站在事件讲述者...
評分如果你期望通过看这本书来发现作者有何摆脱共情的道理，那还是不要看了。 实际上，作者并没有反对共情，或者鼓励大家摆脱共情，作者翻来覆去说得都是要认知共情，不要情绪共情而已... 其中有一段讲述不要过度共情的例子很适用当下中国家庭的教育，比如孩子的父母，相较于爷爷奶...
評分在日常生活中，我确实会有一些关于共情上面的困惑。即朋友在向我讲述自身的遭遇时，我不是很清楚自己到底要站在什么立场上来发表自己的言论。但是有一点很明确就是很少共情，我大多数是站在局外人的角度讲述利弊，当然这也会带来偶尔的无奈。相比较之下当我自己站在事件讲述者...
用戶評價
Some good points, but many argument made just for the sake of making arguments. The most interesting part comes for how dehumanization works (you need to humanize before dehumanize). And yes I need to read more philosophy.
评分3.5星。主旨是很好的，朗讀者是英音。就是一直在舉例子，而且作者似乎是adam Smith的鐵粉哈哈哈
评分用“理性的同情”代替“同理心”。
评分共情的「過猶不及」的效應對個人行為決策給予瞭更多道德層麵的挾持。作者認為更健康的團結是建立於—我理解你的處境，在意你的感受，但我的精神世界不痛不癢。批判過剩的共情迫害瞭理性的運轉條件。
评分開始以為他會寫到any charitable act is an act of feeling good之類的 結果就是簡單的rationality is superior to empathy這種argument 舉的例子和觀點(e.g.,你不需要去感受溺水小孩的痛苦而救他; 不能同時對多人共情)也很有問題 失望
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