An increase in empathy—or, at least, an increase in people wondering what ’empathy’ means
Look-ups for empathy spiked sharply last night and this morning after Paul Ryan used the word in a speech on the second evening of the Republican National Convention. “Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection,”
Ryan stated. “It’s respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference.”
If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others. – Dalai Lama We are conditioned to put the other person ahead of ourselves, sometimes to the detriment of our own ability to be kind to ourse…
But in April, Gibson, executive director of three Pittsburgh YMCAs, took a five-hour crash course on leading with empathy. He says it turned him from a no-nonsense manager into an understanding, caring leader.And as a result of the training, the 48-yea…
Stories and narrative art teach us what lies at the heart of being the Church.When Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan, he is reminding those listening that they have lost the ability to be empathetic.But why did Jesus need to tell a story to m…
In this, the age of late capital and neoliberalism, numbness is desired and the erotic is feared. On Empathy. Empathy is a feeling and an enactment of intentional regard for others. It is a positively antagonistic and radical energy in an isolati…
