How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?
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Friday, December 19, 2014
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"I've become acutely aware of the centrality of compassion in all the major world faiths" — Karen Armstrong
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Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Just A Little Nicer.
About Karen Armstrong's TED Talk
Religion scholar Karen Armstrong describes how compassion is the core principle in all world religions, in the form of the golden rule.
About Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion and compassion, including The Case for God, Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life, Fields of Blood, and The Great Transformation.
In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Also in 2008, she was awarded the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal. In 2013, she received the British Academy's inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding.
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