“Responding well to others, especially survivors of wrongdoing, may require that we open ourselves to hearing something other than what we expect or want to hear, even when what we hear threatens our ideas about how the world is ordered—as listening to survivor testimony might do. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.” CompassionListeningMinistryCounselingSpiritual DirectionHarm ReductionChaplaincy Book:Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Source: Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
“Ethical loneliness is the isolation one feels when one, as a violated person or as one member of a persecuted group, has been abandoned by humanity, or by those who have power over one’s life’s possibilities.” PhilosophyLonelinessEthicsFeminist PhilosophyCare Ethics Book:Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Source: Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard