Ролята на емпатията като морална метафора. Перспективи за култивиране на разбирането за другостта
The Role of Empathy as a Moral Metaphor. Perspectives for Cultivating the Understanding of Otherness

Summary/Abstract: The recent article aims to clarify the issue of empathy as an issue whose reconsideration can affect positively the reconsideration of the argument from analogy in the scope of ethics. It is the justification of empathy as a specific type of metaphor (the latter will be called „moral metaphor“) that can help us to develop critical arguments in favor of the thesis on what does it mean, from ethical point of view, „to be in someone else’s shoes“. On its turn, such a justification shows why all methodological contradictions arising from the argument from analogy, namely-our understanding of the metaphor „being in someone else’s shoes“ as a „dead“ metaphor, can be overcome only by the rehabilitation of empathical metaphoricity. In this context, due to the rehabilitation of empathy as a moral metaphor, i.e. as a metaphor of the Self which predetermines and guarantees the integrity of our unique moral experience (our moral experiential gestalts), we can learn ourselves „to be in someone else’s shoes“ cultivating our awareness of otherness rather than substituting someone else’s moral experience on the basis of some substantial behavioral similarities.

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