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What is Compassion about?
## Abstract The concept of compassion as a virtue is thousands of years old. The last 20 to 30 years have seen a major growth of scientific research on exploring compassion’s psychological, physiological and social processes. This chapter traces compassion back to its evolutionary roots in child parent caring and attachment systems and explores how “motives to care” evolved to texture many forms of caring behavior. Humans are different from other animals to the extent that we have advanced cognitive competencies that allow for high-level forms of reasoning, self-awareness, and mindfulness. It is when the motivation to care is channeled through these competencies and is wisely and intentionally pursued that caring becomes compassion, and thus a virtue, partly because it can be chosen and cultivated.
- Author
- Paul Gilbert
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780197524480
- Subjects
- Psychology, Medical, Medicine
- Rating
- 4.33 / 5 (175 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14