![]() But, the sort of empathy I’m focusing on is what psychologists sometimes call ’emotional empathy.’ And it’s feeling the feelings of others–feeling their happiness, feeling their pain, being connected emotionally to them. But real terrible people also have empathy in that sense, because they can use their empathy to exploit others. Very nice people have a lot of empathy in that sense because they understand other people, could make their lives better. Though I think that this isn’t necessarily a force for good. ![]() So, if I understand how your head works, what’s going on in your mind, I’m having empathy for you. Other people use it in a much more narrow way to refer to our understanding of other people. And I’m not against empathy in that sense. Some people use the term ’empathy’ to mean just everything good. It’s really important to define empathy clearly because as Bloom points out, empathy is used in many ways and he is talking about a pretty narrow definition: ![]() Jerm (and anyone else who missed the opening minute or so), ![]()
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