Empathy-altruism

showing disrespect to Hector even after death, meaning his life had no worth so he does not deserve to be honored in the afterlife. When King Priam approaches Achilles’ gates, begging for his son’s body to be returned, Achilles surprisingly feels empathy and remorse when he is reminded to think of the love between him and his own father, Peleus. He gives the body back and accepts the ransom, as well as saying, “Tell me, be precise about it-- how many days do you need to bury Prince Hector? I…

written in different time periods, in different languages, about different topics that people have claimed have changed the way they look at life. Pay it Forward, one of the many movies on the list, is a story about a young boy who tries to spread altruism by attempting to start a trend of passing on acts of kindness and compassion. By juxtaposing the rough details of Trevor’s personal life with his passion for spreading kindness, the storyteller forces the audience to feel the same emotions as…

purpose for studies prediction and interpretation of the preference to assist sad and or happy targets social partners; seen as, “mood maintenance mechanisms,” although, theories of human altruism suggest that “helping results from an evolved tendency in care giving mammals to respond to distress or need with empathy and sympathy.” 4. Who were the participants and what type of procedure did they undergo? The type of procedure that they underwent was a Hypothetical interaction Task. The…

having power can be negative (van Vught, 2013). Those five ways are power makes you selfish, it makes a person lack empathy, makes a person overconfident, other people do not like a person when they have power, and power could make a person die young (van Vught, 2013). However there is a type of power which is not discussed in the article, and that is the idea of altruistic power. Altruism can be described as behavior which is directed at helping another person in which the helper does not…

According to Martin M. Chemers (2004), professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, leadership is a process of social influence in which the leader enlists the talents and efforts of other group members, in order to accomplish the groups’ common goal (Van Knippenberg, D., & Hogg, M. A., p. 6). Throughout the semester we studied about different leadership theories such as Path-Goal theory, Transformational Leadership, Situational Approach, and so many more. However,…

Wystan Hugh Auden, an Anglo-American poet, once said “A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before their own.”…

Mencius’ altruistic position and four dispositions offer more precise explanations of human motivation than Glaucon’s support of psychological egoism. I contend that humans all have the capacity to partake in moral acts (e.g., helping kin and others, altruism, combatting injustice, etc.). Glaucon’s defense of psychologically egoistic motivation is only useful to recognize that human beings harbor a degree of self-preservation (i.e., to guard oneself from harm and fatality). I will first describe…

and other things. I was really taken back, I had no idea that she was such a talker and had a lot to say. I guess my small gesture had broken the ice between us and now we are friends. This act of kindness in the text is referred to as reciprocal altruism theory, helping someone out because this gesture would be reciprocated back and that’s the benefit of it. Lastly, there was a family, a mother and her two boys that were coming out of TGIF Friday. I held the door for them and told them to have…

Les Miserables develops a critique of the corrupt criminal justice system which punishes those who aren’t true criminals and thus creates hardened criminals. For instance Valjean’s crime is a crime of altruism; he steals a loaf of bread to save his starving cousin. From this act of altruism he receives a sentence of hard labor that leads to his transformation as described by Hugo, “ Jan Valjean entered the galleys sobbing and trembling; he left hardened...What had happened within the soul?”…

children. One of the most important qualities to have as a teacher is empathy, especially when teaching a classroom full of students that come from many different and diverse backgrounds. Having the trait of empathy means that you are able to connect with your students on a more personal level and can look at new ideas and concepts with a more open perspective of how people of different cultures look at things. This kind of empathy is also referred…