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To Heal the Human Heart
The science of empathy is now one of the most celebrated subjects of
psychological and neuro-psychological enquiry and it has the potential to
transform human society in spectacular ways. For instance, if a human being's
central nervous system carries blueprints for empathy, and if the health and
vitality of one's empathy circuits depend on one's environment from conception
through adulthood, what does that mean about our moralistic judgments of good
and evil, and of punishment and reward? This well-written piece on the latest
findings on empathy and on its limitations offers some surprising and heartening
answers.
