“Really radical empatthy” by MichaelStJules

Summary It seems to me that almost every view of what matters for welfare — hedonism, desire theories, preference views, and objective list theories — misses a lot of what we care about, projects concerns we don’t actually have onto us, or otherwise fails to care about them on our behalves as we (would actually) care about them. In one way or the other, they fall short in empathy. Ways of caring are the ways by which things can seem good, bad, better or worse to someone. These at least include pleasure, unpleasantness, desires, moral intuitions, moral judgements, conscious preferences, conscious approval and disapproval, conscious goals, and potentially even the dispositions for these. I conceive of radical empathy as taking on all of everyone's ways of caring, and caring exactly about what they (would actually) care about on their behalf. All ways of caring seem morally considerable to [...] ---Outline:(00:03) Summary(01:47) Acknowledgements(02:01) Ways of caring(07:41) Caring about what we actually care about(12:56) Object views(15:43) Universalized subjectivityThe original text contained 27 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: January 6th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8q9K5BZJvxNCtiDy3/really-radical-empatthy --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.