Why we need to move empathy from personal emotion to collective moral concern | Aeon Videos
Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s perspective. In this instalment of Aeon In Sight, the British writer Roman Krznaric argues that empathy is a un…
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February 08, 2018 at 03:37AM
I think walking in another persons shoes, does make us a social species. Adam Smith said morality was the capacity for changing places in fancy with the sufferer. We have certainly been missing empathy since Gingrich declared democrats non-personna Why we need to move empathy from personal emotion to collective moral concern | Aeon Videos
