This book unravel the nature of Compassion by looking at the following set of question in relation to the Western (Aristotle, Aquinas and Nussbaum) and Indian philosophy (Buddhism and Sikhism); Is compassion the same as or distinct from pity, sympathy/empathy, love and benevolence?, Does compassion involves pain and sorrow?, or, ‘Does the compassionate subject suffer with same intensity the sufferer himself suffers?, ‘Is compassion only a response towards serious suffering, or it is also a response towards non-serious suffering?, ‘How does the compassionate subject make a relationship with the sufferer?, Is compassion a virtue or an emotion?, Is compassion a part of human instinct or is it learnt through practice?, Is there or can there be one universal understanding of the term compassion?
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