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Jane Goodall On Empathy

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 20:30
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Source: NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers 

Jane Goodall opens her heart to animals and tells us why we should, too.

Jane Goodall on Empathy and How to Reach Our Highest Human Potential…
by Maria Popova

“Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.”

The question of what sets us apart from other animals has occupied humanity for millennia, but only in the last few decades have animals gone from objects to be observed to fellow beings to be understood, with their own complex psychoemotional constitution.

Hardly anyone has contributed more to this landmark shift in attitudes — or, rather, this homecoming to the true nature of things — than Jane Goodall (b. April 3, 1934), who has spent the past half-century fusing together the scientific rigor of a pioneering primatologist with the spiritual wisdom of a philosopher and peace advocate.

In this wonderful short video from NOVA’s series The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, Dr. Goodall considers how empathy for other animals brings us closer to our highest human potentiality.

 



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