Literary notes about EMPATHY (AI summary)
In literature, “empathy” often emerges as a dynamic force that both deepens human connection and shapes aesthetic experience. Writers describe it as a potent, almost transformative capacity—one that enables individuals to sense and resonate with another’s inner emotional landscape, going beyond mere thought perception [1, 2]. It is portrayed not only as the wellspring of moral insight and creative response [3, 4] but also as a subtle bridge between self and other that can be projected, measured, or even likened to natural phenomena [5, 6]. In various narratives, empathy functions as the underlying mechanism by which characters relate, react, and ultimately evolve, highlighting its central role in both personal and artistic development [7, 8].
- Empathy is not thought perception, it might better be described as the sensing of someone else's emotional makeup, feelings and attitudes.
— from Sense of Obligation by Harry Harrison - Empathy is not thought perception; it might better be described as the sensing of someone else's emotional makeup, feelings and attitudes.
— from Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison - It is this reiterative nature which, joined to its schematic definiteness, gives Empathy its extraordinary power over us.
— from The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee - Were this not true empathy would be impossible, and without empathy an artistic emotion is purely intellectual and associative.
— from Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright - Sang Huin felt an empathy as deep as the gods while he listened to the wind howling through the crack of the window.
— from Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven David Justin Sills - For example, the movement of empathy is like the currents in the sea; the heart is like a pump.
— from Humanistic Nursing by Loretta T. Zderad - Thus, empathy is a human response, a coalescent movement, a form of relating.
— from Humanistic Nursing by Loretta T. Zderad - Gabriele felt ashamed of herself for groaning about domestic chores and she felt deep empathy for her neighbor.
— from Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven David Justin Sills
