Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is making a case against empathy when it comes to ethical deliberation and action.According to Bloom, emotional empathy has a dark side because it causes an in-group bias that leads to parochialism and racism.Our helping behavior is selectively aimed at those like us and, as a result, blinds us to the suffering in distant global settings.In arriving at his position,...
By employing recent work on epistemology of white ignorance, this article argues that racial prejudice impacts both whites and Blacks in a profound way that extends beyond the cognitive discrimination to the realm of psychological and physical well-being. Given that the mechanism of racial discrimination affects the whole embodied being of both victims and oppressors, theologians need to...