Complementary virtues¶

• compassion
• consideration
• mudita
• pity
• sympathy

Contrasting vices¶

TBD

Virtues possibly in tension¶

TBD

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

Shannon Vallor (Technology and the Virtues) mentions Mahayana Buddhist meditation of “exchanging self and others” in which you assume the perspective of somebody else towards you. Seems like it could be a useful way of trying to evoke empathy.

Notes and links¶

• Six habits of highly empathetic people
• 3 habits that will increase your empathy
• Developing empathy
• 5 steps for how to develop empathy
• A pop news take
• Resources on empathy in a management context
• Teaching (and learning) empathy
• "The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World"
• A card game meant to help strengthen empathy
• Relationship between empathy and attention, emotional intelligence; also says you can “fake it ’til you make it”: I don’t feel your pain: overcoming roadblocks to empathy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Empathy
• Skills You Need: Empathy
• Skills You Need: Empathy types
• Skills You Need: Understanding Others
• LessWrong: Developing Empathy

Mentioned elsewhere¶

• One of Shannon Vallor’s "technomoral virtues"

Inspirational quotes¶

TBD