Adam Smith, aesthetic attunement, and empathy

 
Morton 32: "Adam Smith theorized that aesthetic attunement (reading novels) is a training ground for the ability to empathize with other people, and that empathy is the basis for ethics"
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #ethics, #writing, #empathy

> created September 26, 2023 at 3:54:53 PM


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