My experience with empathy is that empathy isn’t an act, it’s an emotion. Your descriptions track more closely with charity, heroism and justice - behaviors that are certainly closely linked with empathy. But I’m confident that the best definition of empathy explicitly does not include behaviors.
On a tangent, it’s incredibly self-destructive to take ownership of others’ feelings, especially negative ones. To support my statement, it’s predicated on empathy, but exhibits non-constructive behaviors.
My experience with empathy is that empathy isn’t an act, it’s an emotion. Your descriptions track more closely with charity, heroism and justice - behaviors that are certainly closely linked with empathy. But I’m confident that the best definition of empathy explicitly does not include behaviors.
On a tangent, it’s incredibly self-destructive to take ownership of others’ feelings, especially negative ones. To support my statement, it’s predicated on empathy, but exhibits non-constructive behaviors.