{"id":11112,"date":"2010-11-21T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/21\/compassion\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:27:28","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/21\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Feeling compassion for the earthquake victims, he was pleased by his sensitivity, but his warm feeling did not motivate him to do anything such as make a monetary contribution to the Red Cross.&#0160; His feeling remained mere sentiment and to that extent mere self-indulgence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Better to feel compassion than to define it. Better still to act upon the feeling.&#0160; But now an interesting question arises.&#0160; Would it not be even better to act in alleviation of the other&#39;s suffering <em>without<\/em> feeling the negative affect?&#0160; This line of thought is explored in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/12\/spinoza-on-commiseratio-pity-as-a-wastebasket-emotion.html\" target=\"_self\">Spinoza on Commiseratio<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling compassion for the earthquake victims, he was pleased by his sensitivity, but his warm feeling did not motivate him to do anything such as make a monetary contribution to the Red Cross.&#0160; His feeling remained mere sentiment and to that extent mere self-indulgence. Better to feel compassion than to define it. Better still to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/21\/compassion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compassion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}