King answers his own question by saying that we move forward by linking justice, power, and love and understanding that “justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
President Obama adds, in his recent speeches, that what stands against love is our failure to recognize our common humanity. We will not find justice and peace, in other words, until we insist on our human capacity to empathize, listen to each other, and see ourselves in the other.
The empathy trap: therapists and counselors almost by definition are empathic, to facilitate clients’ recovery – but this quality can mean those carers are targets for sociopaths, aided by what Dr Jane & Tim McGregor call “apaths”…
“Empathy,” writes philosophy professor Jesse Prinz, “is not a major player when it comes to moral motivation.” David Brooks, who cites Prinz in a recent column in The New York Times, adds, “Empathy makes you more aware of other people’s sufferi…
‘Child psychologists say one key to raising children who dont bully is to foster empathy in them, because people dont mistreat those with whom they empathize. “Many children are very empathetic, and seem to come by it more naturally,” …
Douglas Van Praet discusses the neurological nature of empathy and how marketers often focus on competition at the expense of real connections. Whenever marketers say their top priority is bonding emotionally with consumers, my eyes roll a bit. E…
