From The Pity Party

"The first thing to notice about liberal compassion is that its lack of a theory is not accidental. Elaborating a philosophy of compassion is not an assignment adherents of the politics of kindness haven’t gotten around to completing. Rather, what draws them to compassion is that it works just fine— better, really— without being theorized. Rousseau, the philosopher who devoted the most attention to compassion, argued in his Discourse on Inequality that compassion’s best aspect was precisely that it came naturally to those who did not let their reasoning get in its way:"

Voegeli The Pity Party