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🗓️ 7 April 2025
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Continuing on The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. We look more closely at the text, getting further into how fellow feeling relates to ethics, and why the moral sentimentalists (like Hume) were wrong about this.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is the partially examined life, episode 364 part two. |
0:12.0 | We've been discussing Max Scheller's part one of the nature of sympathy. |
0:17.0 | And this is a very strange structure. |
0:20.0 | As I was saying before, it was, there was a short version of this from 1913, but then he had a lot of subsequent thoughts. |
0:27.8 | And so this version in 1920s comes out, in fact, now it's part of a series. |
0:32.2 | This is going to be all about the phenomenology of emotion. |
0:34.5 | I'm going to have one on fear. |
0:36.4 | I'm going to have one on honor. I'm going to have one on honor. |
0:38.3 | He doesn't write any of those. He's dead by 1928. He doesn't write any, you know, he's written a lot of |
0:45.1 | stuff. But so this series is aborted. But in any case, he is bogged down. So these four chapters that |
0:50.9 | we read, right, the ethics ofathy, very, very short chapter. |
0:55.6 | Classification of the phenomena of fellow feeling. |
0:57.4 | This was added for the second edition. |
1:00.1 | Genetic theories of fellow feeling. |
1:01.3 | That's from the original. |
1:02.4 | Metaphysical theories. |
1:04.1 | This is the longest chapter. |
1:05.7 | There's a part on Schopenhauer. |
1:07.0 | That was in the first edition. |
1:08.3 | The rest is added for the second edition. In general, it just seems like the second edition stuff is where he gets really picky and pedantic and detailed. |
1:16.4 | And he even says in the intro, in the preface of the first edition, I hope this can be an |
1:20.4 | example of how you can give philosophy in a concise way. So we should have done the first |
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