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Empathy in Connection to Justice - Sabrina Little, PhD (Live)
2024 Grand Round Series
Empathy is a category term for capacities related to perspective-taking and sharing in another’s experiences. It is valuable for bridging human connections and motivating us to take initiative to help others. However, empathy is notoriously biased. We empathize more with those who look like us, people we know, and those with higher social status. Moreover, empathy motivates good actions in the short term, not over the long term. With these things in mind, this talk addresses empathy in connection to justice. It explores other emotions, such as sympathy and compassion, that support care work. And it emphasizes the importance of acting from well-ordered habits of care, rather of relying on emotional connections, to motivate just actions.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
- Define empathy.
- Explain limitations of relying on empathy to prompt good actions long-term.
- Apply these findings to the care setting. (If we cannot rely on empathy to prompt concern for patients, what can we do instead?)
Sabrina Little, PhD, is an assistant professor at Christopher Newport University. Her doctorate is in philosophy from Baylor University. Before Baylor, she studied philosophy of religion at Yale Divinity School and philosophy and psychology at The College of William & Mary. Her research areas are virtue theory, moral psychology, and classical philosophy. She is the author of The Examined Run (Oxford University Press, 2024).
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