Discuss in pairs / groups:
- What is empathy? Try to come up with a good definition.
- Is empathy the opposite of something else? If so, what is it?
Now, watch the video and try to answer the questions as best you can:
- “It challenges human nature and … ?” What is said here?
- What was the monkey doing when the scientist recorded the same brain activity?
- What is it about chimpanses that makes them interesting to look at?
- What is the function of mirror neurons?
- What is people’s first drive?
- Why do the other babies cry too?
- When do you start having knowledge of your mortality?
- Why is it that empathy is absent in heaven?
- What is the big question they are trying to get answered?
- “If it is possible … we may be able to save our … and our ….”
- “To empathize is to … .”
- Which type of grouping together comes after religion?
- If we empathize in all these ways is it then possible to imagine us as connecting to …
- When Haiti was struck with an earthquake which media allowed for all the quick empathy?
- What did the bible get right?
- We should really rethink the … ?
- Which nasty traits come out if you are not allowed to show your empathy?