Empathy, respect, and humanitarian intervention

Ethics and International Affairs 12:103–119 (1998)
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Sherman presents a slightly revised definition of empathy, in which empathy is the cognitive ability to place oneself in the world of another, imagining all of the realities, feelings, and circumstances of that person in the context of their world

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Nancy Sherman
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