Meaning Of Virtue Compassion
It has no basis in actual concern for the subjects long term well being.
Meaning of virtue compassion. In this blog i want to describe the journey to compassion and beyond to love. Compassions popularity unfortunately is so great that it tends to isolate this virtue from all those other factors it needs in order to remain truly a virtue. Compassion has morphed into a virtue that means that one is only concerned with being morally right in their own version of morality.
That is one of my goals this week to be less of a jerk when people rub me the wrong way and instead practice more compassion. See compassion as an important virtue which we. It means to feel with others enter into their circumstances be one with.
Of the four compassion has a unique quality a quality so different from the rest that it connotes a certain spiritual as well as emotional characteristic. Every virtue has its bogus pretenders. Perhaps for this reason it is often cited in spiritual religious texts as a virtue to be sought and developed.
But there is no counterfeit that is more successful in obscuring the genuine article especially in the present era than false compassion. Every virtue has its bogus pretenders. Compassion that is i think one of the most singular and important qualities virtues of jesus.
The recipient of compassion feels its superiority immediately. This will also make you a happier person and your community a better place. Foolhardiness passes for courage timidity for prudence apathy for patience obsequiousness for courtesy and credulity for faith.
This will move you towards the golden mean of this key virtue. As a virtue compassion is a natural disposition to do these things and thus to feel the emotion whenever and wherever suffering is present. But there is no counterfeit that is more successful in obscuring the genuine article especially in the present era than false compassion.