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The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society
Sir Peter Bazalgette
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Description for The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society
Paperback. How the art and science of compassion can build a better society Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'If we hope to meet the moral test of our times, then I think we're going to have to talk more about the empathy deficit . The ability to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to see the world through somebody else's eyes . . .' Barack Obama Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the ... Read more
'If we hope to meet the moral test of our times, then I think we're going to have to talk more about the empathy deficit . The ability to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to see the world through somebody else's eyes . . .' Barack Obama Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473637535
SKU
V9781473637535
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99-50
About Sir Peter Bazalgette
Peter Bazalgette was Chair of Arts Council England from 2013-2017. He also chaired the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He was educated at Dulwich College and read Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge but escaped the law to spend most of his career working in television. He devised some of the biggest entertainment shows in recent TV history, such as Ready Steady ... Read more
Reviews for The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society
Sir Peter argues that politicians and the public must also be made to see that there are certain human aptitudes that can best be nurtured by an engagement with the arts and humanities
Sunday Times
The Empathy Instinct should be required reading
Irish Examiner
Sunday Times
The Empathy Instinct should be required reading
Irish Examiner