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Understanding how empathy can be shaped toward the virtue of compassion is important for care ethical theory and practice. Edith Stein’s (On the Problem of Empathy. Translated by Waltraut Stein. Washington, DC: ICS, 1917/1989) phenomenological account of empathy deepens our understanding of the import of the experience of empathy as caring subjects, and how it can be extended toward acts of care. Paul Ricoeur (Oneself as Another. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) explains how our natural sympathy (empathy) can be directed toward the virtue of solicitude which is the attitude of attentiveness and responsivity to others who solicit our attention whether human or more-than-human. Empathy is complex, thus the analyses that Stein and Ricoeur offer can aid us in putting it more effectively to use in care ethics for our human and ecological relations.

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Empathy and the Hermeneutics of Care: Edith Stein and Paul Ricoeur as Guides in Responsivity to the Solicitations of the Human and More-than-Human World

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    2025年

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  • Kimberley D. Parzuchowski

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Understanding how empathy can be shaped toward the virtue of compassion is important for care ethical theory and practice. Edith Stein’s (On the Problem of Empathy. Translated by Waltraut Stein. Washington, DC: ICS, 1917/1989) phenomenological account of empathy deepens our understanding of the import of the experience of empathy as caring subjects, and how it can be extended toward acts of care. Paul Ricoeur (Oneself as Another. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) explains how our natural sympathy (empathy) can be directed toward the virtue of solicitude which is the attitude of attentiveness and responsivity to others who solicit our attention whether human or more-than-human. Empathy is complex, thus the analyses that Stein and Ricoeur offer can aid us in putting it more effectively to use in care ethics for our human and ecological relations.