Practice empathy
Start with the first of these resources and go reading, listening or watching each one of them in order. If there comes a moment when a resource becomes too difficult, then leave it and begin your own independent inquiry on this topic.
- RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilization. A very good animated video on excerpts from a lecture by Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
- The neurons that shaped civilization - VS Ramachandran. Very good video about mirror neurons and their importance on empathy and development of civilization. A short speech by Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego
- Rifkin (2010a). The Empathic Civilization: Rethinking human nature in the biosphere era. Blog post by Jeremy Rifkin in The Huffington Post (18/03/2010) summarizing his book shortly after its publication
- Rifkin (2010b). Empathic civilization: Why have we become so uncivil?. Blog post by Jeremy Rifkin in The Huffington Post (10/04/2010) analysing social and political reality of the time from the perspective of his theses
- The Empathic Civilization. Video and audio from a Jeremy Rifkin's public lecture at the London School of Economics
- Aarsen (2013). Will empathy save us?. A critical approach to the optimistic views on empathy. Academic article in Biol Theory (2013) 7: 211-217
