PACS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Just War Theory, George Orwell, Empathy
18 Oct 2016
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Learning about ourselves by looking inside and relying on ourselves. 21st century needs to be an age of outrospection - discovering who you are by stepping outside of yourself. Part of living and can be exercised at any given moment. Not only improves your life, but increases radical social change. Can be a tool for a revolution in human relationships. Force that drives us to act and want to help people. Affective empathy - a shared emotional response (mirrored response) See a sad person, you become sad - you are mirroring their emotions. Cognitive empathy - perspective taking and stepping into somebody else"s world. Understanding someones world view, beliefs, fears and how they see the world as well as themselves. Walk around the streets of london as if homeless. Empathetic people tend to be sensitive listeners, make personal connections in oppression of conversations, History = moments of great empathy and empathetic collapse.
