Power and Care: Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality

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Tania Singer (Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute For Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery)

Power and Care

Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality

Tania Singer (Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute For Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery), Kate Karius (Karius Communication and Design) , His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
07 May 2019

Social & political philosophy; Society & Social Sciences; Philosophy of science; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

Series: The MIT Press

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 Rockstr m, Richard Schwartz, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Theo Sowa, Pauline Tangiora, Jody Williams

Contributions by: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University)
Edited by: Tania Singer (Professor and Director Max Planck Institute For Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery), Kate Karius (Karius Communication and Design)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
ISBN: 9780262039529
ISBN 10: 0262039524
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 07 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tania Singer is Director of the Department of Social Science at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Monk and the Philosopher, The Quantum and the Lotus (with Trinh Thuan), Happiness, The Art of Meditation, Altruism: The Power of Compassion, A Plea for the Animals, and (with Wolf Singer) Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience. He has published several books of photography, including Motionless Journey and Tibet: An Inner Journey, and is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. Kate Karius serves to make the world a healthier, more beautiful place by supporting luminaries and mission-driven organizations in bringing their messages out into the world. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection. Tania Singer is Director of the Department of Social Science at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Monk and the Philosopher, The Quantum and the Lotus (with Trinh Thuan), Happiness, The Art of Meditation, Altruism: The Power of Compassion, A Plea for the Animals, and (with Wolf Singer) Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience. He has published several books of photography, including Motionless Journey and Tibet: An Inner Journey, and is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. Dennis J. Snower is Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews for Power and Care: Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality

Those who are interested in how Buddhist principles and the science of compassion and power overlap—or what a spiritual leader might contribute to scientific thinking—will find it an entertaining read. The book provides at least some idea of how we might find a way to balance power and care, for the sake of humanity. —Greater Good