Progressive and conservatives have very different understandings of democracy.
For progressives, empathy is at the center of the very idea of democracy.
Democracy is a governing system in which citizens care about their fellow citizens and work through their government to provide public resources for all. In short, in a democracy, the private depends on the public.
George Lakoff
The UNESCO child and family research centre at NUI Galway recommends that we teach children empathy in schoolsGreed is dead. Empathy is in. The opening lines of Frans De Waal’s renowned book, ‘The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society,’…
Scientists are developing a pill that can artificially produce feelings of kindness. The drug works by changing the neurochemical balance in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is responsible for personality, social behaviour and decision-makingT…
Peter R Breggin MD’s new Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Toward replacing biological psychiatry with better therapeutic approaches! The Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living is a 501c3 nonprofit organization…
OK, I had to admit that I had my doubts when I heard the first rumblings about a giant “fish quilt” we were making to raise awareness about the fact that fish are intelligent, intriguing animals who feel pain just as all other animals do an…
