What is empathy? Can it be taught or is it innate?
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"Abstract Empathy can be widely defined as the capacity to understand the emotional, visual, or cognitive perspective of another individual and is perhaps reliant on the ability to attribute mental states. Behavioural events that may indicate empathy in chimpanzees,Pan troglodytes, are collated (1) using a questionnaire and (2) from the literature. These case studies are classified in a taxonomy of empathic acts in which empathy is categorized as visual empathy, emotional empathy, concordance and extended empathy. In addition, the circumstances surrounding the empathic acts are discussed: whether the recipient of the empathic act was a relative, an unfamiliar individual, or a heterospecific. The cost to the animal showing empathy, whether it displayed any levels of intentionality and if it communicated to a third party are also analyzed. Rescuing of an individual from a dangerous social or physical situation is the only category where the animal shows empathy under all the specified conditions. From this preliminary analysis it seems the chimpanzees may be capable of showing empathy across a wide range of circumstances."
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M$we feel sorry, or tell sorry, just for sake of crossing society rules, or for doing something by mistake. it is only in words, without any effect on heart.
if we see a poor boy working hard to earn his daily bread, without food to eat.. we feel pity, from the heart. it disappears once the scene changes.
charity is helping someone for reasons of pity, or for getting a good name in the society, or for self satisfaction.
but empathy, has to arise from self or soul. it is form of Almighty inside a human being,where the person who sees the suffering, suffers the same or realises the pain, like a mother's feeling towards her child, even to those who are strangers if they are suffering.Those persons, have great endurance, totally selfless, and live to help and heal the suffering.Empathy cannot be learnt. if it is to be learnt, its only through selflessness,ahimsa , patience, and acceptance.
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