Empathy is fundamental human need. If people truly had empathy for one another, violence would be impossible
Direct Violence
– use of physical force (e.g. beating, sexual abuse, killing)
Structural Violence
– exists when some groups/classes/genders etc. are assumed to have, and in fact do have, more access to goods, resources, and opportunities than other groups
Do children become more kind and empathetic after a disaster— or does the experience make them more focus more on self-preservation?.. “[The study] clearly shows that empathy and altruism are naturally linked, and that pro-social behav…
Part of building empathy in your business means creating and managing open channels of feedback. Here’s how to do it. In a previous post I explained what it means for businesses to scale empathy and why it’s important. I lai…
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Slote next introduces a new argument about feelings being involved in opinions/beliefs.He says that if we agree that we can accept another’s opinion – and he understands accepting as a kind of empathizing – and since the object of empathy can be only f…
