Is empathy now to be understood as taking on other ppl's feelings & losing all judgement rather than understanding them & retaining it?
I suspect this is essentially a semantic issue but I think some semantics are more useful than others for discussing things.
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No, there appears to be a conceptual distinction too. See discussion at 13 mins
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Yes but it all comes down to defining empathy as something other than 'understanding how people feel on an emotional level.'
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He's presenting empathy as something that motivates us to help some not others. It needn't. Separating from compassion. Well, yes
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I don't understand empathy as he describes it & possibly that's my mistake. But its only become difficult to discuss lately.
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