Power and care :toward balance for our common future -- science, society, and spirituality

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Power and care :toward balance for our common future -- science, society, and spirituality

Ricard, Matthieu, - Personal Name; Singer, Tania, - Personal Name; Karius, Kate, - Personal Name;

Includes index.Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama. For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent Mind & Life Institute dialogue with the Dalai Lama and others on two fundamental forces: power and care--power over and care for others in human societies. The notion of power is essentially neutral; power can be used to benefit others or to harm them, to build or to destroy. Care, on the other hand, is not a neutral force; it aims at increasing the wellbeing of others. Power and care are not incompatible: power, imbued with care, can achieve more than a powerless motivation to care; power, without the intention to benefit others, can be ruthless. The contributors--who include such celebrated figures as Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, and Jody Williams--discuss topics including the interaction of power and care among our closest relatives, the chimpanzees; the effect of meditation and mental training practices on the brain; the role of religion in promoting peace and compassion; and the new field of Caring Economics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Collation: 1 online resource :illustrations
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262351669
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Subject(s): Power (Philosophy)
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Tania Singer and Matthieu Ricard with Kate Karius.

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