The Empathy Diary

The Prompt

For one week, maintain a diary of empathic experiences — moments when you felt another person's emotion (affective empathy) and moments when you understood another's perspective without sharing the feeling (cognitive empathy). For each entry, note: the context, the emotion involved, whether you felt it or merely understood it, and whether the empathy led to helpful action. At week's end, reflect on whether Bloom's case against empathy resonates with your lived experience.

Completion Criteria

A diary with at least five entries distinguishing affective from cognitive empathy, followed by a reflective essay engaging with Bloom's argument and drawing on personal experience to assess whether empathy reliably guides moral action.

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