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Our question for episode 366 is something like, how can we know the emotional states of others?

We read Eithes Steins on the Problem of Empathy from 1917.

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This is Mark Lentenmire, feeling primordial joy alive from my eye in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is the foreign living body of Seth, Paskin, in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey, primordially grasping my non-primordial experiences in Madison, Wisconsin.

Yes, we got some of the theory out here.

We actually haven't yet another version of foundational grounding primordial it's a new way to

say something direct immediate unmediated yes we just came off of talking about schellers take on

sympathy similar to empathy but stein had read the first edition of that

is reacting to that. So it's not the full text that we read, which was doubled in its second

edition a few years after this, which was in turn reacting to Stein. So Scheller had read

Stein. So this is definitely a dialogue. Unfortunately, some of the parts that of Scheller she's

reacting to is not what we read.

I want to know which part's primordial and which part's non-promordial.

That's my only question about that whole interaction.

Right.

So Scheller was really concerned about the contrast he drew was between sympathy, which is just taking someone else's joy or sorrow as my intentional

object, the thing that I'm thinking about.

And he didn't want us to confuse that with actually identifying with them, putting ourselves

in their shoes, which would just make sympathy into some kind of egoism, right?

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