Empathy
I have a guest post on the Philosophy, Psychology and Real Life blog. It is called Empathy and Communication: do we have to have ‘been there’? It challenges the popular idea that we ‘had to be there’ in order to understand. I think this has truth in it – communication is based on experience. But [...]
Image by erix! This post is in response to a readers question. They asked me (in an email so I’ll keep them anonymous) about the difference between empathy and compassion. My first reaction was a surprised puzzlement, then I realised that I had treated them as meaning pretty much the same, and then I realised [...]
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