PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Frans De Waal, Empathy
12 Jun 2020
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It refers to the process of experiencing the world as others do, or at least as you think they do. To empathize with someone is to put yourself in her shoes, to feel her pain. : he has an unusual view: If you want to be good and do good, empathy is a poor guide. : emotional empathy is part of being human, some degree of emotional empathy is bred in the bone. The sight and sound of another"s suffering is unpleasant for babies and, as soon as they are mobile enough, they try to help, patting and soothing others in distress. To see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us . We are more prone to feel empathy for attractive people and for those who look like us or share our ethnic or national background. : empathy is also narrow:
