Understanding a person’s struggles requires knowledge of their situation.
Evidence
Before you help someone, you should find out why that person is in trouble. … Besides, if you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency in the past (and, by implication, in the present and future, as well). — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 311
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 311
- XREF: connects to: People from impoverished conditions do not always recognize their poverty. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21; Personal financial decisions reflect deeper emotional struggles. — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 611; Cultural humility means admitting that one does not know and is willing to learn from patients about their experiences, while being aware of one’s own biases. — Rethinking Cultural Competence: Shifting to Cultural Humility (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Historical understanding arises from ordinary empathic understanding of neighbors
#corroborates(0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 41 - Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them
#expands(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 - People from impoverished conditions do not always recognize their poverty.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21 - Personal financial decisions reflect deeper emotional struggles.
#exemplifies(0.70) — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 611