books are also great and can help us feel empathy for people outside of our usual social bubbles. "When we read, we are ...

Empathy is understanding how others feel and ... Reading literary fiction requires you to enter the lives and minds of characters who often have very different experiences from your own.

Empathy is not unlimited ... first appearing in Homer’s Iliad as a leading motivational factor for many of the characters. Still, like so much else, the philosophical conversation began with ...