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Compassion as a ‘Public Emotion’ - Between Stoicism and Naturalism -

kang yong soo 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to reveal how the ‘compassion’ will emerge as ‘public emotion’ through the ‘cognitive structure’ of emotion. According to M. Nussbaum, public feelings are formed through filtration, purification, and selection processes and can contribute to public rationality through a process called ‘co-duction’. In order to establish the ‘political emotion theory’ i try to explain ‘cognitive structure of sympathy’ that can be a basis of law philosophy Nussbaum’s and the critical foundation of Nietzsche’s ethics between stoicism and naturalism. Nussbaum’s view emphasizing the need for empathy as a just judge’s capacity is summarized: first, criticism of the Stoics, second, acceptance of A. Smith’s Theory of Observers, third, the cognitive structure-analysis of empathy. I will attempt to bring to Nietzsche's naturalism perspective and analyze the dilemma of Nussbaum’s empathy theory and to complement the defect of theoretical framework.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.