Empathy, Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

 

The idea of valuing yourself less is so critical to being a good person.

Session

Empathy, Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Setup

Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathic parents, children, spouses and friends; we want to train those in the helping professions to expand their empathy, and we certainly want to elect empathic politicians and policy makers. But empathy has certain troubling features, and questions have begun to arise about just how useful empathy really is and how it might be different from related capacities such as compassion.

Explore More

Society

697 ideas
Sorry, we couldn't find any results
Clear filters
Empathy, Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Thank you for signing up!

Please provide a valid email address.

Please provide a valid email address.
aerial 2019 campus
Newsletter
Sign up to receive the latest news from Aspen Ideas.