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Comment on Call for Participation: Empathy Conference by Lou Agosta

Lou Agosta — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:51:10 +0000

Thanks for something completely and totally different, including some of the references at the bottom of Ralphie’s contribution. This is a blog, right? So no further disclaimers are required. Thanks for the participation. Much appreciated.

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Comment on The Chicago Empathy Project is Live! by Edwin Rutsch

Edwin Rutsch — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:19:51 +0000

Dear Lou
Keep up the good work on exploring and promoting the importance of empathy.

May I suggest a further resource to learn more about empathy and compassion.
The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
The Culture of Empathy website is the largest internet portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews, videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion.
http://CultureOfEmpathy.com

Also, I invite you to post a link to your article about empathy to our Empathy Center Facebook page.
http://Facebook.com/EmpathyCenter

I posted a link to your article in our
Empathy and Compassion Magazine
The latest news about empathy and compassion from around the world
http://bit.ly/dSXjfF

Warmly,
Edwin

Comment on Empathy is the new love – and what that means!? by therapybythebay

therapybythebay — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:34:42 +0000

“Still, an approach through empathy can inspire fear of non-conformity and dissent and “turn off” psychotherapists who think/feel more in terms of resistance.”

Hmm, I’m not altogether sure that this statement is true. Love–in the human, existential sense–does not obscure analysis of resistance. Rather, the non-erotically charged love that the above-mentioned theorists posit (potentially) frees the analyst from the limitations of an impossible neutrality.

In any case, bravo for the insightful and nuanced work. I look forward to reading more from you.

Comment on Live from the Humanistic Psychology Conference (Div 32)! A Heideggerian Approach to Empathy by owen59

owen59 — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:26:03 +0000

Please keep blogging. I am only a self-learning in philosophy and am designing workshops for empathy training utilising performing arts techniques. My aim is to use the workshops to help groups explore the separations between their cliques either intra-group or between groups. Ultimately I believe such work will help resolve political arguments eg between industrialists and environmentalists, or within local communities. So understanding the expression of the emotional states within group hermeneutic processes seems invaluable the conceptual basis of these workshops.

Comment on Heidegger on Aristotle and the Emotions in the Rhetoric by Lou Agosta

Lou Agosta — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:37:43 +0000

Thank you for reaching out to me. And for the post.
It is always a pleasure to honor the contribution of Larry Hatab!
As requested, please find my contact data in my separately addressed email.
Once you read the article, please let me know what you think.
It sounds like we are “fellow travelers” in the matter of Befindlichkeit and empathy.
Keep me posted on the progress of your work.

Comment on Heidegger on Aristotle and the Emotions in the Rhetoric by Christos Hadjioannou

Christos Hadjioannou — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:43:56 +0000

Dear Professor Acosta,

I am a DPhil student researching on Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Moods. I just now discovered your work, which overlaps and anticipates certain themes of my research. (Let me also tell you that I am a former student of Larry Hatab, who is a good friend and mentor!). I shall incorporate your work in my bibliography and read your articles and recently published book on empathy very carefully. I am certain I will benefit from it.

In the mean time, could you please email me so as to establish a more direct and personal channel?

Many thanks!

Best wishes,

Christos

Comment on The Comparison between Empathy and Taste (Aesthetic) In Kant’s Third Critique by Edwin Rutsch

Edwin Rutsch — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:46:33 +0000

My I suggest a further resources to learn more about empathy and compassion?
The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
The Culture of Empathy website is the largest internet portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews, videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion.
http://CultureOfEmpathy.com
Let’s Find 1 Million People Who Want to Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion
http://Causes.com/Empathy

Comment on The Comparison between Empathy and Taste (Aesthetic) In Kant’s Third Critique by Lou Agosta

Lou Agosta — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:39:32 +0000

Thanks for calling out the broken link, which I have now repaired. Much appreciated. I have also sent the material to you via email (as soon as I am done with this reply). Thanks also for the recommendation about Wieland, which I have seen and will get from the library. Kant’s theory of the emotions gets traction in the context of his engagement with the sublime, and, of course, charm (Reiz) delivers a diversity of empirical affects. I would say that we are fellow travelers in the matter of [much of] this material, and I hope you will keep me informed on the progress of your work. As we are coming up on Christmas, all the best to you and yours for a happy and safe holiday season! Lou

Comment on The Comparison between Empathy and Taste (Aesthetic) In Kant’s Third Critique by Ulrich W. Diehl

Ulrich W. Diehl — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:09:01 +0000

Dear Professor Agosta,

someone has send me a note on your book and the link to this page last week. If you diid so yourself, I would like to thank you for your e-mail. I am interested in your philosophical research on empathy. I have read your article “Kant’s Treasure Hard-to-Attain” published in the Kant-Studien with great interest and I will read it again. I may have some question then.

Next summer I will teach a seminar on Kants Tugendlehre where I will consider Kants views about the role of judgement in ethical and moral matters. This will be a good opportunity to look for parallels with aesthetic and teleological judgement.

Maybe you are not yet familiar with Wolfgang Wieland’s book “Urteil und Gefühl. Kants Theorie der Urteilskraft”. This is a original and innovative philosophical study on Kants analysis and theory of judgment. This might be relevant for your research on empathy as well.

Although I am more interested in Jaspers’ and Pfänder’s theories of emotions rather than in Heidegger’s analysis of the ontic structure of Dasein we seem to have some common thematic interests and methodological approaches. Currently, I am working on a study on Kants conception of dignity.

In the eigthies I studied with Hector-Neri Castaneda and Alberto Coffa at Indiana University in Bloomington. Both of them initiated that I became less interested in analytic philosophy and more interested in Brentano and Husserl, Jaspers and Gadamer, in addition to the evergreen masters, like Plato, Aristotle and Kant.

For the moment, I would like to read your essay “The Comparison between Empathy and Taste (Aesthetic) In Kant’s Third Critique”. Unfortunately, I could not download it from your homepage like your essays on Kant’s Treasure and Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle’s Rhetoric.

Would you please be so kind and send me an e-mail with the data file as an attachment?

Sincerely,

Ulrich Diehl