A much-needed paradigm shift in how we view other animals and ourselves brings hope and life to our dreams for a more compassionate, empathic, fair, and peaceful planet in which social justice prevails.

All throughout February, Arianna's been reading Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization"--the historical argument that empathy has helped us surviv...

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

If we can help one another bear the darkness rather than evade it, perhaps one day we will be able to see the light.

When empathy is guided by a deeper understanding of each other's perspectives, it offers enormous promise for helping us build global cooperation.

The Native American Chippewa Indians say, "No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves." And yet we choose to fight to be right.

If we are to move forward as a culture and as a nation, America must stop being the Madly in Love With Me Civilization and start being the Empathic Civilization.

Washington insiders say they can't ever recall a period in American public life as full of anger and polarization as now.

Prairie humanists depend on the human biological capacity for empathy. This isn't surprising. There would be no human culture, and certainly no democracy, without empathy, which allows us to see the world through others' eyes.

The following is an excerpt from the HuffPost book club pick for February, Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization". Historians, by and large, wri...

For this month's HuffPost Book Club, I have chosen Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization, which boldly sets out to present nothing less than -- as Rifkin puts it -- "a new rendering of human history."

'Empathic Civilization' and Jeremy Rifkin are giving HuffPost Books the chance to deliver the coolest online reading experience we've seen yet. Why ar...

Our rush to universal empathic connectivity is running up against a rapidly accelerating entropic juggernaut in the form of climate change. Can we reach biosphere consciousness in time to avert planetary collapse?