I could talk about how books raise awareness and promote empathy and understanding of others.
The novel's irreverence — Batman is a frequent reference — undercuts its efforts to create an air of intrigue, but the questions it raises regarding empathy and loneliness are explored in moving and idiosyncratic ways.
I hope that it'll raise more empathy around minimum wage fight in NYC.
The sensational aspect of a genocide, of creating a victim star who will raise world empathy for 5 minutes, this is the usual dead end which we must avoid.
But that will only come through raising awareness and empathy about the bisexual experience -- and gaining allies to help us put an end to the prejudice against us.
We say things like "Today we are all Muslims," which is frankly insulting and absolutely ineffective in raising people's empathy, if that's what it aims to do.
Indeed, arts-based approaches may represent a particularly effective method for reaffirming empathy and raising awareness about how people subjectively experience illness and health challenges.
We can all use some help in raising our level of empathy and moral imagination.
Of course, in raising the very name empathy, the author cancels out the notion that the "beautiful view of suffering" is an anesthetic.
What they inarguably accomplish, however, is to deepen the Creature's sense of self by teaching him empathy and raising his awareness, however painful, of the world and his place in it (or lack thereof).
