Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an "active desire to alleviate another's suffering."<< wikipedia first sentence.
It does go on to say>It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In "ethical" terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so- called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others as you would have done to you. Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues. There are after that there are several Different Traditions representing the Different "Religious and Spiritual Views of "What Compassion IS to Them". All this does not invalidate my post of what compassion is as said in the first sentence "active desire to alleviate another's suffering. Obviously there are many components and levels to compassion. "You say compassion is deep awareness of the suffering of another". Well that precedes all else, Of Course we have to have an awareness of others suffering before we can experience the "Emotion of Compassion", that goes without saying. It is all much the same except the words are different, basic semantics. I think you are just overly nit picking at the terminology. Again I would say that compassion IS alleviating someones pain or suffering (after the awareness of it), mental or physical, through some action, interaction, or intervention. Awareness precedes everything that we are to have a reaction to. Without the awareness we can't react. On Jan 13, 2:03 pm, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 Jan., 20:49, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > Compassion definitively infers the alleviation of > > > pain or suffering, mental or physical, through some type of > > interaction or intervention and I would think that compassion is a > > valuable asset to all of humanity. > > The problem is, Slip, that this is NOT what compassion is - compassion > is deep awareness of the suffering of another, literally, "feeling > with ..."http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compassionThe problem in > George's case, it seems to me, is that the practical reaction to > compassion about his situation was not particularly well thought > through. A particularly useless "beau geste." > > Francis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
