Compassionate Bodhisattva

All infants rely on parenting behaviors that provide what they need to be healthy. As “compassion” can be defined as feelings that are elicited by perceiving someone else’s sufferi...

A significant proportion of deaths in childhood, even those from life-limiting conditions, happen in an intensive care environment. An effective interface between palliative care s...

This chapter offers an analysis of Taixu’s Maitreyan theology through a close reading of his commentaries on the Three Essentials—the texts he identified as the cult’s foundation. ...

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s...

Historically, social psychologists are known for demonstrating the power of situations to reduce compassionate impulses and prosocial behavior. The simple presence of other people,...

Heroism as an important factor in social transformation, and enacted compassion can fundamentally change individual and societal level outcomes. Although some of our prior work has...

Abstract If Your Adolescent Has Autism presents the latest evidence-based information on how autism intersects with adolescence. It explores the challenges and stren...

After considering the possibility of a deontological application of the notion of being in touch, this chapter argues that compassionate agents achieve intuitively correct moral co...