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The Moral Psychology of Compassion Moral Psychology of the Emotions Series Editor: Mark Alfano, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, DelftUniversityofTechnology Howdoouremotionsinfluenceourothermentalstates(perceptions,beliefs,motivations, intentions) and our behavior? How are they influenced by our other mental states, our environments, and our cultures? What is the moral value of a particular emotion in a particularcontext?Thisseriesexploresthecauses,consequences,andvalueoftheemo- tions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Emotions are diverse, with components at various levels (biological, neural, psychological, social), so each book in this series is devoted to a distinct emotion. This focus allows the author and reader to delve into a specificmentalstate,ratherthantryingtosumupemotionsenmasse.Authorsapproacha particularemotion from theirown disciplinaryangle (e.g.,conceptualanalysis,feminist philosophy,criticalracetheory,phenomenology,socialpsychology,personalitypsychol- ogy,neuroscience)whileconnectingwithotherfields.Insodoing,theybuildamosaicfor eachemotion,evaluatingbothitsnatureanditsmoralproperties. Othertitlesinthisseries: TheMoralPsychologyofForgiveness,editedbyKathrynJ.Norlock TheMoralPsychologyofPride,editedbyAdamJ.CarterandEmmaC.Gordon TheMoralPsychologyofSadness,editedbyAnnaGotlib TheMoralPsychologyofAnger,editedbyMyishaCherryandOwenFlanagan TheMoralPsychologyofContempt,editedbyMichelleMason TheMoralPsychologyofDisgust,editedbyNinaStrohmingerandVictorKumar Forthcomingtitlesintheseries: TheMoralPsychologyofCuriosity,editedbyIlhanInan,LaniWatson,DennisWhit- comb,andSafiyeYigit TheMoralPsychologyofRegret,editedbyAnnaGotlib TheMoralPsychologyofGratitude,editedbyRobertRobertsandDanielTelech The Moral Psychology of Compassion Edited by Justin Caouette and Carolyn Price London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andPlymouth(UK) www.rowman.com Selectionandeditorialmatter©2018byJustinCaouetteandCarolynPrice. Copyrightinindividualchaptersisheldbytherespectivechapterauthors. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-78660-418-7 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable ISBN:978-1-78660-418-7(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN:978-1-78660-420-0(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix CarolynPriceandJustinCaouette 1 TheMoralValueofCompassion 1 AlfredArcher 2 AppreciatingtheVirtuesofCompassion 15 BradfordCokelet 3 CompassionandAnimals:HowtoFosterRespectforOther AnimalsinaWorldwithoutJustice 33 CherylAbbate 4 CompassionandConsolation 49 AaronD.Cobb 5 CompassionandItsPitfalls 61 TrudyGovierandDavidBoutland 6 CompassionandPracticalReason:ThePerspectiveofthe Vulnerable 77 CarlaBagnoli 7 BuddhismandtheProblemofUniversalCompassion 95 KarstenJ.Struhl 8 CompassioninMedicine 113 LauraW.Ekstrom 9 ChallengesandOpportunitiesforCompassionateMentalHealth Care 129 HelenSpandler v vi Contents 10 CompassionintheWorkplace 145 JustinM.WeinhardtandAidanDumaisnil References 159 Index 175 NotesonContributors 181 Acknowledgments The editors would like to thank all the contributors to this volume for their hard work and forbearance as we put the volume together. We would also liketothankMarkAlfano,MoralPsychologyoftheEmotionsSeriesEditor, and Isobel Cowper-Coles and Natalie Bolderston at Rowman & Littlefield Internationalfortheirsupportandencouragementthroughouttheproject. vii
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