Tuesday My brother Sam, an enthusiastic Unitarian Universalist, gave me Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life for Christmas, and I was pleased that the author sees literature playing a major role. In today’s post I share how she draws on the ancient Greeks. Armstrong writes, “All faiths insist that compassion is the test […]
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Through Lit, We Learn Compassion
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Correct & Incorrect Uses of Pity
Escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, grasping the treacherous nature of pity, taught readers how to properly use it.
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