Does Language Make Us More Empathetic?

Blogger Andrew Sullivan neatly summarizes a debate between two poets, Yusef Komunyaka and Mark Doty: Does our power to visualize and then feel an experience through language have any real impact on how we act in the real world? . . .  continue

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• We want to believe that our imagination is part of our larger faculty for human sympathy, don't we? But is it? Who you side with in this debate, Komunyaka or Doty?