Ethical mindfulness, the DNA of moral authority
Mikael Meir
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks March 17, 2023 DOI: 10.4337/9781800881020.00035 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that business and ethics education remains aligned with an extractive economic model and neglects intrinsic skills, and proposes a pedagogy grounded in adult development theory, Jungian analytic theory, and contemplative neuroscience to elevate students' meaning-making systems and foster more ethical leaders. |
Abstract
A widespread lack of moral awareness and courageous action across organizational leadership has contributed to global disruption through social injustice, geopolitical threats to democracy and, most urgently, our collective climate emergency. Perilous threats demand a reformation of our social structures to sustain our survival as a species. Despite these facts, business schools, and ethics education in general, remains complacently aligned with helping students develop extrinsic skills to be successful in an extractive economic model. There is little emphasis on the intrinsic skills critical to developing self and moral awareness and necessary to lead change at this crucial time. In this paper I use subjective data from my personal life experience, along with adult development theory, Jungian analytic theory, and contemplative neuroscience to put forth a new pedagogy that targets a holistic elevation in students’ meaning making systems to attempt to create more ethical student leaders.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |