Empathy & History

Empathy is defined as the intellectual identification or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, attitudes of another. Sympathy is defined as feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. Empathy differs from sympathy by empathy meaning I would have to understand their feelings, attitude, and imagination. Sympathy only refers to having pity for a person and what the have gone through. An example of empathy would be when the Nazi's had a group who went around killing innocent Jewish people. Some other Nazi's declined the offer to do this to innocent people, like women and children. Probably because they had empathy rather than the other group. The ability to empathize while studying history has to do with the fact of imagination and critical thinking in order to actually understand everything about it.

Empathy