Empathie et esthétique

Alexandre Gefen, Bernard Vouilloux

"Immediate, instinctual, even brutal, empathy is, since ancient times, as well as object of fascination for concern. It is of concern because it leads us to be moved by the torturers and criminals as well as by victims. However, as noted Blade Runner, the capacity for empathy is precisely what differentiates human robots who try to imitate it is the humanity of man. The extent to which they participate artistic emotions emotions we can say ours? Can we educate well by sharing the emotional point of view of others? Do they have the same qualities, the same intensity? Are they beneficial or harmful? Can you really learn compassion in a novel? Does he sense we revolt against the suffering incurred by a canvas? Once it escapes the simplistic opposition between reason and emotion, selfishness and altruism, nature and culture, real and fictional relationship links the question of empathy...