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The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (History of Emotions) by Rob Boddice is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (History of Emotions) about?
In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwini
Who reads The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (History of Emotions)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rob Boddice
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252040580
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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