Sentence examples for rational compassion from inspiring English sources

The fact that Wagner is played on the radio in Israel, but not at public concerts, shows rational thinking side by side with rational compassion.

Bloom had just published a book, "Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion," in which he drew a distinction between empathy (the ability to feel other people's pain) and compassion (desiring others' well-being); according to Bloom, society needs less of the former and more of the latter.

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion is a deliberately maverick work – astringent, provocative, often witty and unabashedly against a prevailing culture that places so high a premium on the virtue of empathy that at least 1,500 books available through Amazon apparently have a version of the word in their title.

He pins his colours to the mast of rational compassion rather than empathy, and it is a central tenet of the book's argument – I think a correct one – that there exists a confusion in people's minds about the meaning of the two terms.

In that way, we can take the necessary steps to counteract negative influences perhaps through expanding our circle of care, learning emotional self-control, learning how to read others' emotions, examining bias in ourselves, and maybe even practicing rational compassion, as Joshua Greene and others have argued.

What Dan is so tirelessly trying to sell is rational compassion.

Human compassion and rational situation analysis will always serve you much better than yelling to get your point across.

The Jain doctrine of non-injury is based on rational consciousness, not emotional compassion; on responsibility to self, not on a social fellow feeling.

The organization, which views Satan as a symbol of personal autonomy and promotes compassion and "rational inquiry," is arguing that Missouri's abortion restrictions — including its informed consent law and mandatory 72-hour waiting period before procedures — violated the religious beliefs of one of its members.

Religion can offer the training needed to build that skill and the will to choose what's most reasonable -- as well as acts of compassion many rational people would think are foolish -- like acting as a human shield by showing compassion to a killer, rather than running for one's life.

All rational people of faith and compassion must be prepared to confront and denounce demagogic influences in their churches, mosques, synagogues and temples.