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Mar 2025
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Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part O...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On The Nature of Sympathy (1913, expanded 1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. 

What is it to feel sympathy (aka "fellow feeling") for another person? It is NOT to "identify" with that person; ethics requires that the person be irreducibly Other, not part of my (extended) ego.

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