Author Archives
Dedicated and committed that empathy becomes less of a rumor and more of an expanded reality in the community...
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Summer Reading: Wonder Confronts Certainty: by Gary Saul Morson (Reviewed)
Novelistic truth teaches the reader to give up absolute truth—certainty—and learn to dance in the dynamics of life’s sometimes chaotic but committed conversations in which dogmatic agreement yields to the give and take of empathic relatedness.
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In the beginning was the word – and the word was – empathy!
In the beginning was the word – empathy! Translation provides a new model for empathy – the new model is an old model. Empathy has always been about translation.
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Rhetorical Empathy – a primer
At first, empathy and rhetoric seem to be at cross purposes – yet the speaker without empathy is not likely to be effective or persuasive, no matter how much we may disagree
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Historical empathy, strict construction of the US Constitution – and guns
Whatever the Founding Fathers intended with the Second Amendment, they did NOT intend: Sandy Hook. They did not intend Nashville, Covenant School. They did not intend Uvalde, Parkland, Columbine, Buffalo, NY, Tops Friendly. They did not intend some 119 school shootings and counting since 2018.
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Radical empathy, a double bind, and moral trauma
Radical empathy reveals that one can be both a perpetrator and a survivor. What has been overlooked is the role of moral trauma. The driver of the trolly car, the agent, is put in a double-bind,
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Top Ten Empathy Trends for 2023
Empathy is a practice and priority, not a mere psychological mechanism. Practicing empathy is a way of being in the world, creating a safe space of openness, acceptance and toleration. In the face of a contagion of Omicron, we need a contagion of empathy.
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Review: Empathy and Mental Health by Arthur J. Clark
As a young man, Arthur J. Clark heard Carl Rogers speak and was inspired to devote his life’s work to applying empathy in education, counseling, and talk therapy.
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Review: Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred Tauber
Freud attended the lectures of Franz Brentano in Vienna in 1874. Brentano was committed to establishing psychology as an empirical science based on the analysis of intentionality as the defining feature of consciousness. Brentano’s approach excluded the possibility of an unconscious as a realm of intentions unknown to the subject.
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Review: Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person: Husserlian Investigations of Social Experience and the Self by James Jardine
Okay – the photo is kinda scary, but he is a really kind man. Will empathy solve the problem? Husserl himself withheld the manuscript of Ideas II from publication. He was not satisfied with the results, having been accused of succumbing to the problematic philosophical dead-end of solipsism, the inability to escape from the isolated self, knowing only itself.
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On Guns: Historical Empathy and Strict Constructionism of the US Constitution
Whatever the Founding Fathers intended with the Second Amendment, they did NOT intend: Sandy Hook. They did not intend Uvale, Columbine, Buffalo, NY, Tops Friendly. They did not intend wiping out a 4th grade class using automatic weapon(s).
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