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Christia Mercer on suffering and sympathy

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Here is a link to a PDF file placed in the public domain by Christia Mercer, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College.

Knowledge and Suffering in Early Modern Philosophy: G.W. Leibniz and Anne Conway

Mercer also has a chapter in Sympathy: A History (OUP, 2015).
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Recommended reading. Early modern suffering. History of the emotions.

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