Frans
de Waal examine the empathy from an evolutionary point of view, concerning that
human society is very competitive, selfish, and greedy. The author support his
thesis that give importance to the emotional and mental processes like empathy
that are not unique for humans, because it has been observed among a wide
variety of animal species, and also take in account the cooperative behaviour,
which is essential to the mammal animal societies to have existence.
In terms of evolution and society,
we, as human beings, have been evolving during our whole existence, and with us,
the society have lived lots of changes. In our society, there have been a big
globalisation because of the wide advances in transportation and communication
infrastructures, inlcuding the rise of the Internet, and those are generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
Nowadays, we are like hyperconnected, and the migration movement of people and the enviromental challenges are also affecting to us. This processes have also affected to our society in terms of business and work organization, economics and sociocultural resources, and also in our natural environment. If we think about evolution and changes in terms of science, we realise of the improvement of science and technologies in our society and those have a big influence in our lives nowadays, for instance, today we can't live without a Smartphone or Internet.
In my opinion, in terms of empathy and evolution, empathy had changed, nowadays we, as human beings, are characterized by the empathy that we have, but now this is changing and is becoming different, we are fighting to be the bests in whatever and we are forgetting to be empathic, we are losing empathy only to be above the others.
