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Letters


Letters


Humane Responses • A Journey Around Tallis • Capital in the Capitol • Caves, Chambers & Bubbles • Poet’s Corner


Humane Responses


Dear Editor: In response to James R. Robinson’s ‘Empathy & Sympathy’ in Issue 167, I contend that empathy is essential to a moral philosophy, both in theory and practice. For example, it’s implicit in Confucius’s rule of reciprocity, “Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to yourself” and Jesus’s Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you’d have them do to you.” Empathy is a requisite for the implementation of either. And as both a reader and writer of fiction, I know that stories wouldn’t work without empathy.


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