Empathy Is the Ability to Share Another's Thoughts or Emotions

question 17

Multiple Choice

Empathy is the ability to share another's thoughts or emotions in order to understand them better while sympathy is feeling for a person, which can be:

• A)faulty perception.
• B)condescending
• C)insincere.
• D)dishonest.

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Definitions:

Autonomy

The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision about one's own life and actions.

Life Support

Medical interventions or equipment used to keep a person alive who would otherwise fail to maintain autonomous bodily functions, including devices that assist respiration and circulation.

Utilitarianism

A specific, consequence-based, ethical theory that judges as right the action that does the most good and least amount of harm for the greatest number of persons.

Values Clarification

A process by which individuals define their own values.