What is your usual way of reacting to another person’s actions or words? Where do you start? If we are honest with ourselves (at least ourselves), how often do we begin with a genuine effort to understand the other?
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza (Dutch philosopher), Tractatus Politicus (1677) ch. 1, sect. 4
If this advice was relevant 350 years ago, just think how applicable it is today in the age of spreading polarisation accelerated by technology and exacerbated by the mass media culture of hyperbolic attention-grabbing at a scale Spinoza could not have even imagined.
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