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Worth it for the illustrations alone, but there is SO MUCH more here.

This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook by Henry James Garrett

June 11, 2024 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Embarking on reading This Book Will Make You Kinder I knew extraordinarily little. I could not say I was familiar with its author and illustrator, Henry James Garrett although his visual work is what he is most known for. I had spotted ASKReview’s review (which must be how it ended up on my to read list), but that was pretty much it. But at some point this winter, I plunked it on my library requests list without too much thought other than, I could, in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: empathy, Ethics, Henry James Garrett, kindness, This Book Will Make You Kinder

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:16 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: empathy, Ethics, Henry James Garrett, kindness, This Book Will Make You Kinder ·
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This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook by Henry James Garrett

July 30, 2022 by ASKReviews 1 Comment

Best for: All of humanity (but mostly the privileged folks). In a nutshell: Philosopher Garrett makes his case for the reasons we should be kind, and the ways people falter at it. Worth quoting: “The problem is not that oppressed people don’t empathize enough with their oppressors; the problem is that privileged folk don’t empathize enough with the oppressed.” “Our beliefs about the inevitability of certain forms of suffering are intimately connected with our beliefs about what type of world is possible.” “If you believe […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Henry James Garrett, Philosophy, sociology

ASKReviews's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Henry James Garrett, Philosophy, sociology ·
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