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RWStanding
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Empathy and Ego

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Empathy and Ego
However animal-human feelings evolved, they must be a basis for ethical-political values, as advised by the rational mind. Defining the way both individuals, and polities relate together, but distinct from culture except as the possession of culture is a value. The possession of empathy-sympathy, its absence, its contradiction or suppression, predicting the way people and societies or polities behave. Nevertheless, those who are deficient in empathy may yet understand it on a rational basis in the way it works, although they will be inclined to use it for their own benefit.
Values as derived and presently understood when considered in combination and as a whole, point society in several directions, but have nothing direct to say about particular material goods.
1: Empathy-sympathy gives rise to altruism or social responsibility.
2: Apathy to egotistical individualism.
3; Aversion to a servile society.
4; Antagonism to all values of a stable society gives rise to lawlessness and chaos.
These forms of society are therefore linked and defined by various sets of elementary values, of which the most obvious is:
1 - 2: Freedom. [Equality et al]
2 - 3: Ego
3 - 1: Duty-Responsibility. [Diversity et al]
'Altruism' therefore is not what we wish it to be or fashion dictates, but what it logically is in contrast to the other general conditions of society and societies.
Equality, as a basic value, has no intrinsic meaning beyond the self-evident of an indefinite equivalence between people and between polities.
It may be observed that ethical fashion today, if chaos is avoided, is so much in favour of ill defined Individualism and of Globalisation, that eventually a stultifying unity of culture, ethnicity, and fashion will result. And census returns in which sex is homogenized.
Celebritydiscodave2
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Re: Empathy and Ego

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What actual point/points are you making, and where are you in this, what`s your contribution, where is the sentiment which is not borrowed, and want is the point/are the points in this contribution, how does the dwelling on it help move us from A through to B? There is complexity in everything which relates to the mind but what is your direction in suggesting to a little of the complexity here?

Both empathy and ego are vital to the balanced and healthy mind, both as a whole, and equally, as an individual. Whilst it is impossible to have too much empathy, it is possible to both show too much, and as well to spend too much time overly preoccupied with it. Over preoccupation permits less time for "living" There is nothing wrong with ego other than should one`s ego be fragile/unhealthy. Fragile ego requires much more of it in an attempt to do a normal job. Robust ego can be knocked down in one area to simply resurface in another. Then we have want of ego, yet another state of ego again, accompanied by at least a degree of depression. I tend to only making my own contributions, nothing stolen/borrowed. All the rest is just a few clicks away!
Celebritydiscodave2
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Re: Empathy and Ego

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The only relationship between the two which immediately comes to mind is that with an increase above what might be generally accepted as being a healthy level of ego tends to come, actually likely strongly tends to come, a reduction in empathy. The preoccupation being with self. Very low levels of ego might well often tend to coexist with a constant struggle for empathy. This at least sounds logical to me.
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