Fritz Breithaupt
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The Dark Sides of Empathy
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2019
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Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie
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Das narrative Gehirn Was unsere Neuronen erzählen
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El cerebro narrativo: Lo que nuestras neuronas nos cuentan
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The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell
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2025
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Kulturen der Empathie
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2009
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Culturas de la empatía
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El cerebro narrativo
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Goethe and Wittgenstein: Seeing the World’s Unity in its Variety
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2003
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Goethe and Wittgenstein: Seeing the World's Unity in Its Variety
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2005
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“This definition makes a clear distinction between sympathy and empathy, with sympathy being an affective reaction to the benefit of someone in need: “I feel for you but not like you.” To be sure, according to this model sympathy can, but does not have to, emerge from empathy.”
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
“The intellectual process of understanding another’s thoughts or feelings also does not meet this definition of empathy. Accordingly, people who routinely experience the situations of others, such as doctors and caregivers, as well as more rationally calculating people, would according to this definition be less apt to feel empathy.”
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
“who thins themself out, and in so doing loses their self (if they had one in the first place). In this way, they become receptive and able to recognize and project onto others the self that they are lacking.”
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
― The Dark Sides of Empathy
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