Matthew Taylor is Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the
encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Prior to this
appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime
Minister of UK.
Article:
Twenty first century enlightenment: something to build on?
In pursuing the goals of universalism we need to give more thought to
the conditions which give rise to (and diminish) the sentiment
which lies behind fellow-feeling:
empathy.
2010-06-13 - Guardian.co.uk:
Hail the 21st-century Enlightenment. Ideas don't come much bigger
We need to live very differently, argues a bold new text. And that calls
for nothing less than a revolution of the mind... Empathy can save us,
believes Taylor; it is vital to negotiations on how we share out natural
resources, and vital to ensure harmonious co-existence on a crowded
planet. But he acknowledges: "There are reasons to ask whether the
process of widening human empathy has stalled, and just at the time we
need to accelerate it."
