Empathy is a central feature of the human experience, one which grounds both science and religion. Drawing upon cognitive science, contemplative psychology, and phenomenological philosophy in considering empathy the dynamic coupling of self and other, as a basic intersubjective dimension that precludes the distinction of inner and outer realities.
Phenomenological inquiry suggests four aspects to empathy: involuntary coupling of self and other, imaginary transposition of oneself to the place of the other, interpretation of oneself as Other to the other and vice versa, and moral perception of other as person. These capacities exist wholly or in part in specific instances; all of these elements are found in human developmental psychology and come together in the lived bodily experience and via language
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