Empathy
- The power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person’s feelings.
While the ability to connect with another person’s experience seems perhaps tender-hearted and to the more jaded, even weak, this powerful ability represents the best and the worst humanity has to offer. In fullness it brings with it every good quality for peace, kindness, interdependence, and true relationship; in absence, the void wreaks apathy and every opportunity for abandonment, disenfranchisement, usury, manipulation, and every form of cruelty. Following are excellent illustrations of empathy and its fruits, and also one or two of its opposites…
Examples of Empathy in Film
- 50/50
- A Map of the World
- A Single Man
- Adam
- American History X
- As Good As It Gets
- Dad
- Flipped
- Groundhog Day
- On Golden Pond
- Party Monster
- Scrooge
- Slums of Beverly Hills
- The Help
- The Queen
- Up in the Air
- Warrior
- Water for Elephants
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
- When a Man Loves a Woman
“empathy.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empathy>.
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
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