Empathy Definition Essay
Маринченко Наталья гр.506 Empathy
I’d like to dwell on such a phenomenon as empathy or, in other words, the ability to undarstand and share the feelings of another. It’s the powerful emotion that halts violent and cruel behaviour and urges us to treat others kindly and fairly.
First of all, let’s go into deeper understanding of this phenomenon. The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word empatheia (physical affection, passion, partiality) which comes from en (in, at) and pathos (passion or suffering).
Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad range of emotional states, including caring for other people and having a desire to help them; experiencing emotions that match another person's emotions; discerning what another person is thinking or feeling; and making less distinct the differences between the self and the other. It’s the ability to step into the shoes …show more content…
Compassion is an emotion we feel when others are in need, which motivates us to help them. Sympathy is a feeling of care and understanding for someone in need. Both, sympathy and compassion are about objects and are bound in rational thought whereas empathy is about subjects and is bound in emotions and feelings.
In unpacking the nature of empathy, it won’t be out of place to single out some expressions of it. The simpliest display of empathy is the hug. Another thing that promotes empathy is laughter. It wires our brains together. People that laugh together indwell each other. It connects spirit.
There is one more form of empathy, it can be put like so called “mirror”. In conversation, we subconsciously mimick the other person as a way of sharing, thus indwelling the other person. You move your hand in a certain way and I mirror that. In that way we "feel" each other - we participate in one another's feelings - we "read" each other's minds. This is empathy at
I’d like to dwell on such a phenomenon as empathy or, in other words, the ability to undarstand and share the feelings of another. It’s the powerful emotion that halts violent and cruel behaviour and urges us to treat others kindly and fairly.
First of all, let’s go into deeper understanding of this phenomenon. The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word empatheia (physical affection, passion, partiality) which comes from en (in, at) and pathos (passion or suffering).
Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad range of emotional states, including caring for other people and having a desire to help them; experiencing emotions that match another person's emotions; discerning what another person is thinking or feeling; and making less distinct the differences between the self and the other. It’s the ability to step into the shoes …show more content…
Compassion is an emotion we feel when others are in need, which motivates us to help them. Sympathy is a feeling of care and understanding for someone in need. Both, sympathy and compassion are about objects and are bound in rational thought whereas empathy is about subjects and is bound in emotions and feelings.
In unpacking the nature of empathy, it won’t be out of place to single out some expressions of it. The simpliest display of empathy is the hug. Another thing that promotes empathy is laughter. It wires our brains together. People that laugh together indwell each other. It connects spirit.
There is one more form of empathy, it can be put like so called “mirror”. In conversation, we subconsciously mimick the other person as a way of sharing, thus indwelling the other person. You move your hand in a certain way and I mirror that. In that way we "feel" each other - we participate in one another's feelings - we "read" each other's minds. This is empathy at