Is it leading to moral indifference and based on the philosophy of the objective idea of the importance of 'emotional detachment as an ethical ideal? What do you think about the ideas of sympathy, empathy and its relevance for life?. — Jack Cummins
I'm currently in a rehabilitation facility (for a couple of more months) with other post-op amputees and variously disabled elders where I'm confronted especially each night by sounds of acute pains (and prolonged indignities due to staffing shortage) which, even as a recovering patient/resident in this place, I'm not prepared to ignore or disregard. Is this "compassion" (now thwarted by own incapacity)?... thinking about the nature of compassion. — Jack Cummins
No. The latter is active and former passive.Does Empathy Always Lead to Sympathy?
And what about, for instance, the atrocities and abuses countless generations of folks long before this era have inflicted on one another as if they were "machine-like robots" completely devoid of "empathy" and "sympathy"? The modern world, global civilization, was not built or maintained by "compassion", mate – current technocapitalism, imo, doesn't make today's "compassion" problem any more acute and dire than it was back when the Upanishads were being written.I see this question as particularly significant as so much is becoming 'robotic' and machine-based?
No, as pointed out above.Is it leading to moral indifference and based on the philosophy of the objective idea of the importance of 'emotional detachment as an ethical ideal?
They are (like) moods; the relevant capability, or trait, is compassion – motivation stronger than sympathy to actually help alleviate another person's suffering – actually helping one another.What do you think about the ideas of sympathy, empathy and its relevance for life?.
I am uncertain about where I stand on the issue of empathy/sympathy being about semantics. — Jack Cummins
Also, the issue of empathy has become an important area in psychiatry, in relation to autism — Jack Cummins
Also, the issue of empathy has become an important area in psychiatry, in relation to autism. Lack of empathy has become medicalised. — Jack Cummins
It also overlaps with the idea of 'emotional intelligence' — Jack Cummins
Sometimes, gushy emotionality can be mistaken for empathy, as in 'crocodile tears'. — Jack Cummins
There are so many people who are self diagnosing themselves as autism and, lack of empathy may be part of this criteria. — Jack Cummins
It partly comes down to the problem of being separate individuals, but interconnected. — Jack Cummins
Yes.I am thinking that your issues may come down to diabetes, which is so prevalent. — Jack Cummins
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:100:[W]e're not in a position to know whether people care about others or not. We can only judge by actions, not by sentiment or professed values. What do people actually do? — Tom Storm
Also, the issue of empathy has become an important area in psychiatry, in relation to autism. Lack of empathy has become medicalised. However, even in that context there may be blurring of semantics. Some assumptions and assessments may be about the ability, or lack of ability for 'feelings'. This may involve value judgements on the part of those assessing. Nevertheless, on a more analytic level, the research on autism looks at theory of mind, involving the ability to be able to imagine another's perspective, which is the basis of the concept of empathy. — Jack Cummins
In autism the view is that they don’t have what’s called a theory of mind. Many autistic people can feel deeply for the plight of others and may have a highly developed sense of social justice, — Tom Storm
The view that autistic people lack theory of mind any more than anyone else presented with another creature different from themselves, is out of date. Simon Baron-Cohen did a lot of damage with this, and the experiments purported to show this lack of theory of mind have been robustly challenged. — bert1
A clever psychopath, by contrast, may have excellent cognitive empathy, but lack affective empathy. But I'm not an expert on psychopathy. — bert1
Sympathy is more like social radar, empathy is sharing in the pain of those who show up on that radar. — DifferentiatingEgg
Sympathy means you can detect the problem, because you understand what's going on... doesn't mean you give a damn about helping. — DifferentiatingEgg
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