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 ...
