ABSTRACT
This conclusion having two main threads, one which seeks to address a perceived deficit in empathy, the other which uses the answer to this, in the final section, to think further about what author have termed the empathic position alongside a role for the manual of concern. In this context, pause and reflect upon the limitations of empathy. To do so, The chapter return to a famous dilemma in moral philosophy, the Trolley Problem, which has inspired so much fantastic recent work on moral judgment. The chapter proposes, in, a way of thinking through the problem in terms of a theory of freedom, under the microscope of the empathy test. Through the empathic processing model of radical concern, the author had found it difficult, even impossible, to consider an argument which accepts a lesser lot for other persons. The author argument here is that people can only truly test our understanding of equality by subjecting it to social scrutiny.
