Empathy Lessons

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• A Critical Review of a Philosophy of Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on April 6, 2019

  

  You don’t need a philosopher to tell you what empathy is; you need a philosopher to help you distinguish the hype and the over-intellectualization from a rigorous and critical empathy. Every parent, teacher, health care worker, business person with customers,… Read More ›

• Poverty is bad for your health: Review of Ansell’s The Death Gap

  By Lou Agosta on March 31, 2019

  

  Poverty is bad for your health.  Inequality causes poverty. In turn, poverty causes illness and death. Therefore, inequality kills. The evidence is extensive. The data is compelling. The logic is impeccable. But is this not just correlation, not causation? A… Read More ›

• REVIEW: Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Lawson

  By Lou Agosta on March 30, 2019

  

  I am catching up on my reading. Christine Ann Lawson’s Understanding the Borderline Mother is a classic in its field, with a whopping 396 Amazon reviews (Q1 2019), enjoying a rating of 4.7 out of 5.0. Impressive. (See the bottom of this review… Read More ›

• Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue

  By Lou Agosta on March 3, 2019

  

  Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue [Thursday evening 6 – 8:30 pm April 04 – May 23 2019 450 Citfyront Center 60611] Click here to register:  Register [http://tinyurl.com/y3wjdp9s  This course is about a man, a book, a city,… Read More ›

• Review: Empathy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  By Lou Agosta on February 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a page-tuner, highly engaging, but also deeply disturbing. Surveillance capitalism and its two major practitioners, Google [Alphabet] and Facebook, are unprecedented developments. Personally, I have been struggling to get my head around trends… Read More ›

• Empaths don’t get enough empathy: Review of The Empath’s Survival Guide by Judith Orloff

  By Lou Agosta on February 3, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Empaths don’t get enough empathy. An empath is a person who is naturally endowed with an overabundance of empathy. As I understand the term, a “natural empath” (my term, not Orloff’s) is an individual who is naturally endowed from birth… Read More ›

• Review: Fictive Narrative Philosophy by Michael Boylan

  By Lou Agosta on February 2, 2019

  

  Review: Michael Boylan. (2019). Fictive Narrative Philosophy. London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). Short review: two out of two thumbs up. Michael Boylan is a widely published philosopher and the author of substantial literary fiction in a series of six novels… Read More ›

• Review: The Empathy Effect by Helen Riess

  By Lou Agosta on January 27, 2019

  

  The force of empathy is strong with Helen Riess, MD, and her team. In The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience-based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences(with Liz Neporent, Forward by Alan Alda (Sounds True… Read More ›

• Top Ten (10) Empathy Lessons Trending in the New Year of 2019

  By Lou Agosta on January 6, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  10. Empathy versus bullying: in mud wrestling with a pig, everyone gets dirty – and the pig likes it. How to deal with bullying without becoming a bully? Set firm limits – set firm boundaries – thus far and no… Read More ›

• Top 7 Empathy Lessons in Leadership: The Video Replay

  By Lou Agosta on December 16, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  In the webcast the participants will engage how to:
  •    Distinguish empathy from compassion, forgiveness, pity, and “niceness”;
  •    Establish and maintain boundaries with bullies, slackers, difficult individuals, and friends while still honoring one’s commitment to empathy, to client service, to flourishing financially, to inclusiveness and community;
  •    Identify failures (breakdowns) in empathy and what to do about it; and
  •    Expand or contract empathy on demand by overcoming obstacles to empathy.

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