{"id":4167,"date":"2016-05-09T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:27:29","slug":"facing-death-from-a-safe-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2016\/05\/09\/facing-death-from-a-safe-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Death from a Safe Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 23, 2016<\/h6>\n<h3>Facing Death from a Safe Distance: <em>Sa\u1e43vega<\/em> and Moral Psychology<\/h3>\n<p>Lajos Brons<br \/>\nNihon University and Lakeland University<\/p>\n<p><em>Sa\u1e43vega<\/em> is a morally motivating state of shock that\u2014according to Buddhaghosa\u2014should 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 <em>sa\u1e43vega<\/em>\u2014what it is and how it works\u2014based on recent insights in psychology. According to dual process theories there are two kinds of mental processes organized in two \u201csystems\u201d: the experiential, automatic system 1, and the rational, controlled system 2. In normal circumstances, system 1 does not believe in its own mortality. <em>Sa\u1e43vega<\/em> occurs when system 1 suddenly realizes that the \u201csubjective self\u201d will inevitably die (while system 2 is already disposed to affirm the subject\u2019s mortality). This results in a state of shock that is morally motivating under certain conditions. <em>Sa\u1e43vega<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2016\/05\/Brons-Samvega-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 23, 2016 Facing Death from a Safe Distance: Sa\u1e43vega and Moral Psychology Lajos Brons Nihon University and Lakeland University Sa\u1e43vega is a morally motivating state of shock that\u2014according to Buddhaghosa\u2014should be evoked by meditating on death. What kind of mental state it is exactly, and how it is morally motivating is unclear, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2016\/05\/09\/facing-death-from-a-safe-distance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facing Death from a Safe Distance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99240],"tags":[2824,1939,99242,2589,2297],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-23-2016","tag-buddhaghosa","tag-death","tag-loving-kindness","tag-meditation","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-15d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}