Comments on: Empathic Justice http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/06/empathic-justice/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Adam http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/06/empathic-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-7617 Adam Thu, 14 May 2009 02:07:26 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3159#comment-7617 It's hard also to ignore the role of empathy in the debate over torture. For all the shouting over principles, I often suspect that torture proponents just have a fundamentally different conception than I do of both what it means to be human and what it means to suffer. It’s hard also to ignore the role of empathy in the debate over torture. For all the shouting over principles, I often suspect that torture proponents just have a fundamentally different conception than I do of both what it means to be human and what it means to suffer.

]]> By: pragmatic idealist http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/06/empathic-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-7548 pragmatic idealist Sat, 09 May 2009 16:24:32 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3159#comment-7548 In general, idealists are more concerned with origins and pragmatists are more concerned with results. Obama once again shows himself to be a pragmatist. In particular, the school strip search case opened my eyes. The words of the male justices indicated that none of them had a clue as to how traumatic the event was for the girl involved. That they relied so heavily own their own life experiences as males made the argument for diversity visceral to me for the first time, and gave me great empathy for Justice Ginsburg. In general, idealists are more concerned with origins and pragmatists are more concerned with results. Obama once again shows himself to be a pragmatist.

In particular, the school strip search case opened my eyes. The words of the male justices indicated that none of them had a clue as to how traumatic the event was for the girl involved. That they relied so heavily own their own life experiences as males made the argument for diversity visceral to me for the first time, and gave me great empathy for Justice Ginsburg.

]]> By: Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Emphasizing Empathy - True/Slant http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/06/empathic-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-7526 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Emphasizing Empathy - True/Slant Thu, 07 May 2009 19:36:24 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3159#comment-7526 [...] at JulianSanchez.com, the eponymous Julian Sanchez has a response to my post yesterday on The Problem With Empathetic [...] [...] at JulianSanchez.com, the eponymous Julian Sanchez has a response to my post yesterday on The Problem With Empathetic [...]

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