Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T08:33:24.786Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Understanding People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Neil Cooper
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The division between “erklaren” and “verstehen” is not as sharp as the conventional wisdom maintains, for all understanding, including the understanding of people, consists in the connecting, ordering and appraising of things encountered, believed or known. The understanding of people is a distinctive kind of cognitive understanding which has a practical side, involving the emotions. The education of the emotions, needed for us to understand ourselves and others, can be achieved both by the observation of real life and importantly by the study of realistic fiction and of biography.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 383 - 400
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)