My intuition is, for example, incompatible with bert1's distinction between cognitive empathy and affective empathy. To me (intuitively), cognitive empathy isn't empathy at all. — Dawnstorm
I am raising this area of debate with a view to thinking about the nature of compassion. The author of the article also raises the question, 'Does Empathy Always Lead to Sympathy? I see this question as particularly significant as so much is becoming 'robotic' and machine-based? 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 see this question as particularly significant as so much is becoming 'robotic' and machine-based? — Jack Cummins
Linguistically empathy implies a lack of differentiation between the two subjects whereas sympathy or compassion implies a retention of the differentiation between the two subjects. — Leontiskos
What is Empathy? The origin of the word empathy dates back to the 1880s, when German psychologist Theodore Lipps coined the term “einfuhlung” (literally, “in-feeling”) to describe the emotional appreciation of another's feelings. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5571783/#:~:text=What%20is%20Empathy%3F,emotional%20appreciation%20of%20another's%20feelings.
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