Empathy and Neuroscience: Possible Educational Implications

Abstract

Education enables human beings to build their life project and is grounded in the possibility of freedom. This article explores the link between educability, freedom, and brain structure, integrating philosophical reflection and neuroscience. By analyzing empathy and its neural basis, it shows how intersubjective relationships can be cultivated, starting from bodily experience. Mirror neurons and embodied simulation theory offer new insights into aesthetic experience, imitation, and learning. This perspective supports a renewed understanding of the human person, where science and philosophy cooperate to foster a holistic and personalistic education.