Exploring Entangled Empathy Ft. Lori Gruen w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy
Watch this episode to hear an ecofeminist philosopher explain why we should think in terms of “entangled empathy” for non-humans as opposed to "animal rights.”
Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and a leading voice in the multidisciplinary field of critical animal studies. She is also the founder of The Last 1,000 Chimps an initiative that documents how the last batch of chimpanzees who were used in biomedical and behavioural research is being retired. In this episode, she discusses how animals empathize with other animals (and humans!), and what she’s learned about empathy from working as a professor in the prison system.
00:00 Preview
00:29 Introduction
00:51 About Lori Gruen
03:31 Can animals empathise?
07:29 The empathic connection between animals and humans
10:37 What is entangled empathy?
14:26 How Lori’s values and care for the non-human world affect her daily decisions
18:36 The Last 1000 Chimps
25:50 Abstract empathy across mass communities
27:35 Cages or no cages?
31:39 Lori’s work with the incarcerated
37:25 Developing emotional literacy in prison spaces
41:50 Strategies for becoming more conscious and evolved souls
47:22 Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory
52:14 Lori Gruen’s Purposeful Empathy Story
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Show Notes
Entangled empathy
Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory
Last 1000 chimps
Video edited by David Tsvariani