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Culture and philosophy: in his book Traditions of Compassion (Palgrave, 2006), Lampert offers an analysis of the concept of "compassion" in three cultures for which the term "compassion", is an inherent part of their self-image: Christian-Catholic culture, which developed a narrative of compassion in the sense of participation in agony (of ...
Compassion and empathy sound like synonyms, but they're two different skill sets. Here's how and why to hone both qualities, according to psychologists.
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another"). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering. [1] Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering to help alleviate and ...
Brach, Tara (2003). Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80167-8.; Brach, Tara (2012). "Mindful Presence: A Foundation for Compassion and Wisdom", in Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice edited by Christopher K. Germer and Ronald D. Siegel.
The emergence of the term compassionate love has been described by Lynn G. Underwood in a chapter in the first edited book on compassionate love research, The Science of Compassionate Love. [2] The term first emerged in the context of a research meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) for developing tools to assess quality of life to be ...
Chen notes that The third treasure, daring not be at the world's front, is the Taoist way to avoid premature death. To be at the world's front is to expose oneself, to render oneself vulnerable to the world's destructive forces, while to remain behind and to be humble is to allow oneself time to fully ripen and bear fruit.
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion is a 2016 book written by psychologist Paul Bloom. The book draws on the distinctions between empathy , compassion , and moral decision making. Bloom argues that empathy is not the solution to problems that divide people and is a poor guide for decision making.
Philosopher and feminist Sarah Lucia Hoagland argues that the relationships in question, such as parenting and teaching, are ideally relationships where caring is a transitory thing designed to foster the independence of the cared-for, and so end the unequal caring relationship. Unequal relationships, she writes, are ethically problematic, and ...