• Introduction
• 1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy: Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
• 2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity)
• 3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason, Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics
• 4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and Compassion
• 5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics
• 6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions
• 7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity
• 8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of Sympathy
• 9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality, and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments
• 10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring
• 11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion: Pantheistic not Pessimistic
• 12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in Kierkegaardâs Works of Love
• 13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy
• 14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs Theory of Coldness Reconstructed
• 15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions