1. Introduction and overview; 2. Empathy, its arousal and prosocial functioning; 3. Development of empathic distress; 4. Empathic anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice; 5. Guilt and moral internalization; 6. From discipline to internalization; 7. Relationship and other virtual guilts; 8. Empathy's limitations: is empathy enough? 9. Empathy and moral principles; 10. Development of empathy-based justice principles; 11. Multiple- claimant and caring-versus-justice dilemmas; 12. The universality and culture issue; 13. Implications for intervention.
The culmination of three decades of study and research in the area of child and developmental psychology.
'Empathy and Moral Development is the most important book on
empathy, its cultivation, and its fundamental contribution to moral
development and behavior. Hoffman's use of types of moral encounter
as an organizational device is inspired. In this one work, we
finally have the integrative product of Hoffman's three decades of
impressive contributions to the field.' John C. Gibbs, Ohio State
University
'Elegantly written … a useful attempt to make moral reasoning more
evidence based.' Richard Ashcroft, The Lancet
'For over four decades Martin Hoffman has investigated the many
facets of moral development, focusing particularly on empathy. In
this very important book he integrates his efforts, giving the
reader a powerful account of the central role that empathy plays in
moral agency. Hoffman's book will serve as a contemporary milestone
for both researchers and educators in moral development.' Journal
of Moral Education
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