id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2j62s46836h Emily Spencer In Defense of Our Better Angels: On Empathy's Role in Ethics 2021 .txt text/plain 346 13 34 After I have established my basic argument for empathy's role in moral perception and performance, I argue that because empathy plays this unique and important role, improving our empathic abilities leads to bettering our ability to both know when action is called for as well as understand what action is called for. My analysis takes the form of a descriptive reconstruction of moral performance, emphasizing the relation between moral perception and judgment in particular on the interplay between cognitive and emotional faculties in moral perception. cache/2j62s46836h.txt txt/2j62s46836h.txt