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| Facing Death from a Safe Distance: Saṃvega and Moral Psychology | ||
| 作者 | Brons, Lajos |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.23 |
| 出版日期 | 2016 |
| 頁次 | 84 - 128 |
| 出版者 | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
| 出版者網址 | https://history.la.psu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | University Park, PA, US |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Brons, Lajosl (Nihon University and Lakeland University) |
| 摘要 | Saṃvega is a morally motivating state of shock that—according to Buddhaghosa—should be evoked by meditating on death. What kind of mental state it is exactly, and how it is morally motivating is unclear, however. This article presents a theory of saṃvega—what it is and how it works—based on recent insights in psychology. According to dual process theories there are two kinds of mental processes organized in two “systems”: the experiential, automatic system 1, and the rational, controlled system 2. In normal circumstances, system 1 does not believe in its own mortality. Saṃvega occurs when system 1 suddenly realizes that the “subjective self” will inevitably die (while system 2 is already disposed to affirm the subject’s mortality). This results in a state of shock that is morally motivating under certain conditions. Saṃvega increases mortality salience and produces insight in suffering, and in combination with a strengthened sense of loving-kindness or empathic concern both mortality salience and insight in suffering produce moral motivation. |
| 目次 | Introduction 84 James Baillie on the “Expectation of Nothingness” 90 Dual Process Theory and Saṃvega 95 States of Denial and Transcendence 104 On the Possibility of Other Causes of Saṃvega 106 Saṃvega and Moral Motivation 112 Concluding Remarks 121 References 124 |
| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 94 |
| 建檔日期 | 2016.08.22 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.07.13 |
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