ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the notion of sympathy in general terms and emphasize the role of sympathetic concern in relations with either close or distant others. It aims to elaborate on the relational constitution of the individual that underlies the virtue of caring in proximate relations, where the idea of self emerges as an object to human consciousness in a double bind of recognition with the other. The chapter explains how the self which arises from such relations continues to proceed across time even apart from them, using Lorenzo Greco’s argument that human life in David Hume’s terms is best considered as a narrative. It also discusses how stories objectify moral sentiments as truths of a more general relevance, and account for constructing the conventions of justice. Both virtues of care and justice therefore should be sought in organ-isations as they are complementary in responding to different moral dilemmas of everyday business.
