Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom

138 Charles Goodman notes Charles Goodman, Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). “In contrast to empathy” Tania Singer and Olga M. Klimecki, “Empathy and Compassion,” Current Biology 24 (2014): R875. The neurological difference Ibid. 139 “a warm positive state” Olga M. Klimecki, Matthieu Ricard, and Tania Singer, “Empathy Versus Compassion: Lessons from 1st and 3rd Person Methods,” in Compassion: Bridging Practice and Science, eds. Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz (Max Planck Society, 2013), e-book at http://www.compassion-training.org/?lang=en&page=home. “The empathic sharing” Ibid. ongoing experiments led by Singer For example, Olga M. Klimecki et al., “Differential Pattern of Functional Brain Plasticity after Compassion and Empathy Training,” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9 (2014): 873–79. 140 “When experienced chronically Singer and Klimecki, “Empathy and Compassion.” conclusions