Perceptual Empathy: An Analysis of the Fourth Dimension of Empathy

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2024.02.003

Abstract

Abstract: Traditional empathy research divides empathy into three dimensions: emotional empathy， cognitive empathy and action empathy， and does not focus on the ways to obtain empathy. Combining the research of phenomenology and cognitive science on empathy， it is pointed out that perceptual empathy as the fourth dimension of empathy is the basis of the other three dimensions. The function mode of perceptual empathy is as follows: perceptual empathy and action empathy are synergetic with each other， perceptual empathy and cognitive empathy permeate each other， and perceptual empathy is the guarantee of empathy as a whole. The comprehensive view of the internal relationship of the four-dimensional empathy gets rid of the separated view and the oneness view of empathy， and solves the cognitive consumption of the separated view and the otherness of the oneness view.

Key words: four-dimensional empathy; perceptual empathy; comprehensive view of empathy; phenomenology of the body

CLC Number:

N031

CUI Zhongliang. Perceptual Empathy: An Analysis of the Fourth Dimension of Empathy[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2024, 26(2): 18-26.

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