Compassion
Index
Site Description
Compassion
(linked to sources)
Concept Description
This category overlaps with
Desire
and
Joie de Vivre
I tried reserving
Compassion
for what might be called "love" or positive motives as:
Francis Bacon's
"love makes men humane and charitable"
Dante's
"love appeases our will so we only long for what we have".
Desire
on the other hand is sort of getting at
Buddha's Noble Truth 2
or the negative effects of compassion.