Empathy as a form of interpersonal communication

Abstract

Empathy was the subject of interest of ancient philosophers, mainly stoics. Also in later centuries it was a subject of consideration by philosophers and ethics, although this term did not exist then (the phenomenon was studied without describing its name). This term was explored as well as a psychological process and as a personality element. Empathy as the understanding of feelings and others' concerns and looking at the world from their point of view is the recognition of differences in feelings, which are caused in people by the same things. Therefore, its usefulness in social communication is obvious