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Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice

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In this article, the authors present an overview of the development of empathic distress, anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice, and moral internalization from discipline to internalization.
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1. Introduction and overview 2. Empathy, its arousal and prosocial functioning 3. Development of empathic distress 4. Empathic anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice 5. Guilt and moral internalization 6. From discipline to internalization 7. Relationship and other virtual guilts 8. Empathy's limitations: is empathy enough? 9. Empathy and moral principles 10. Development of empathy-based justice principles 11. Multiple- claimant and caring-versus-justice dilemmas 12. The universality and culture issue 13. Implications for intervention.

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