Power and Care - Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality (Hardcover)

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. Contributors Paul Collier, Brother Thierry-Marie Courau, Frans B. M. de Waal, Olafur Eliasson, Scilla Elworthy, Alexandra M. Freund, Tenzin Gyatso (His Holiness the Dalai Lama), Markus Heinrichs, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Frederic Laloux, Alaa Murabit, Matthieu Ricard, Johan Rockstroem, Richard Schwartz, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Theo Sowa, Pauline Tangiora, Jody Williams

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Tania Singer (Professor and Director) • Matthieu Ricard • Kate Karius
Contributors:	His Holiness the Dalai Lama • Frans B. M. De Waal • Sarah B Hrdy • Johan Rockström • Alexandra M. Freund (Professor of Psychology) • Markus Heinrichs • Tania Singer (Professor and Director)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-03952-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > General Books > Philosophy > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > General
LSN:	0-262-03952-4
Barcode:	9780262039529

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