Empathy: the action of understand, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, an experiences of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner. (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate) This is the meaning of “love your neighbor.” Empathy allows us to experience the reality of all others; present and past, real or fictional. In this sense we are the other person, we are all other people. So then, hate for anyone would indicate self-hate. It is most important that we love ourselves. The future of our life on this earth depends up the full development of empathy.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:22:07 +0000
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