The aim of this study is to compare Bloom's and Hoffman's views on empathy, and to explore what solutions Hoffman's theory can give to Bloom's critique of empathy. Hoffman's theory provides a meaningful solution to the empathy’s limitations raised b...
The aim of this study is to compare Bloom's and Hoffman's views on empathy, and to explore what solutions Hoffman's theory can give to Bloom's critique of empathy. Hoffman's theory provides a meaningful solution to the empathy’s limitations raised by Bloom, that is, the role of empathy in moral judgment, the status of empathy as a prosocial motivation, and empathic over-arousal or emotional burnout. And these solutions presuppose the development of mature empathy. Therefore, we need to consider innate, automatic, and unconscious empathy as subject that should be developed in moral education, not something that should be discarded in morality.