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What an [En]tangled Web We Weave: Emotions, Motivation, and Rethinking Us and the “Other”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Myisha Cherry
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Abstract

In Entangled Empathy, Lori Gruen offers an alternative ethic for our relationships with animals. In this article, I examine Gruen's account of entangled empathy by first focusing on entangled empathy's relation to the moral emotions of sympathy, compassion, and other emotions. I then challenge Gruen's account of how entangled empathy moves us to attend to others. Lastly, and without intending to place humans at the center of the conversation, I reflect on the ways entangled empathy can help us solve some human problems—particularly the racial divide in the United States.

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Symposium on Lori Gruen's Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals
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Hypatia , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Spring 2017 , pp. 439 - 451
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Copyright © 2017 by Hypatia, Inc.

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