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Mike W. Martin - Mindfulness in Good Lives, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Mindfulness in Good Lives

Av Mike W. Martin

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Mindfulness is celebrated everywhere—especially in health psychology and spiritual practices, but also in the arts, business, education, environmentalism, sports, and the use of digital devices. While the current mindfulness movement may be in part the latest fad in a narcissistic and therapeutic culture, it is also worthy of greater philosophical attention. As a study in ethics and moral psychology, Mindfulness in Good Lives remedies the neglect of this subject within philosophy. Mike W. Martin makes sense of the striking variety of concepts of mindfulness by connecting them to the core idea of value-based mindfulness: paying attention to what matters, in light of relevant values. When the values are sound, mindfulness is a virtue that helps implement the kaleidoscope of values in good lives. Health psychologists, who currently dominate the study of mindfulness, often present their research as value-neutral science. Yet they invariably presuppose moral values that should be made transparent. These values, which lie at the interface of morality and mental health, form bridges between philosophy and psychology, and between literature and spirituality.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-10-23
  • Mått: 159 x 233 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 503 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781498596367
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Mike W. Martin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Chapman University.

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Martin (emer., Chapman Univ.) intends Mindfulness in Good Lives to uncover the values at the base of mindfulness, and he provides a serious philosophical examination of the concept. Popular approaches link mindfulness with Asian spiritual practices, and therapeutic psychologists sometimes embrace mindfulness as a magic cure for all of life’s problems. By contrast, Martin takes the idea of mindfulness seriously and thinks of it in relatively simple terms: he writes in chapter 1 that mindfulness “highlights the importance of paying attention to what matters, in light of values.” He also claims that the values connected with mindfulness are often somewhat "hidden" by psychologists and others who claim to use only value-neutral science. Martin wants to make the underlying values explicit. He explains that his "overarching aim [in the book] is to understand mindfulness as a virtue in good lives—as an excellence that helps implement sound values.” This is quite different from much of the therapeutic psychological literature, in which being “mindful” sometimes seems to mean little more than being nonjudgmental. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.

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