Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. I really enjoyed what this video had to say and hope this becomes an important factor in our future social infra-structure.
Personally I suspect that empathy (and altruism) is a commonly used and genuinely understood phenomena of people already - just not perhaps from the perspective of scientific theory. This 'folk' knowledge however is less likely given officially supported credibility for its capacity in furthering our understanding of 'real truth' in the world, until it seems, a form of science picks it up and runs with it.
Instead, simple empathy has been a phenomenon more likely embraced in instances that are less publicly recognized, and less economically rewarded. Empathic understanding I suggest has always been a legitimate form of knowledge - it's just a shame it has taken science so long to catch up.
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