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Emotional labour and emotional exploitation: the community of the weak and the community of the strong
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감정노동과 감정착취: 약함의 공동체와 강함의 공동체

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Academic journal
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Jonggab Kim (건국대학교)
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한국문학치료학회 문학치료연구 문학치료연구 제47권 KCI Accredited Journals
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2018.4
Pages
59 - 83 (25page)
DOI
10.20907/kslt.2018.47.59

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Emotional labor, one of the hottest issues in our society now, is closely related with the human faculty of sympathy. Sympathy is the an ability to feel the pain of the other as if it is our own and take pity on them. According to David Hume and Rousseau, sympathy is based on our recognition of the human weakness and misery common to all of us, such as pain and death. We have the natural inclination to sympathize with those who suffer. However, it is one thing to sympathize with close friends, and it is another to be forced to sympathize with the strangers because job requires it. Such a forced causes emotional exhaustion, depression, and neurosis. Emotional robots, which will be customized soon, are modern technology invented to unburden such troublesome labours from us humans. It is expected that soon those robots will take over all the emotional labours previously done by humans. Then in such a world free of emotional labours, will human nature still remain the same? Will humans live with more satisfaction and society be more peaceful? This paper is an attempt to answer the question with “No.” Humans will gradually lose their ability to sympathize, and will take the pains of the others as something strange and alien to themselves. The problem is sympathy is not just one of the human emotions, but their structural condition. The decrease of sympathy cause other feelings such as feeling happy others and laughing with them to disappear. Without the ability to feel the pains of others as our own, we cannot feel their happiness as our own. I will conclude that the exclusive employment of emotional robots for the jobs in need of emotional labours will result in the loss of human virtues.

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