the virtue of compassion (or sympathy) is the habitual inclination to share the suffering and pain of the hurting that moves us to relieve their suffering and pursue their ultimate good. Like courage, it has a double vision. It sees the objective affliction and the subjective misery of a sufferer, and it resolves to join them in their pain. At the same time, it remains anchored to what is good and thus desires to relieve their suffering by pursuing their true well-being.
