Mindfulness (care)

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Mindfulness ( English attentiveness, care, regardfulness ) is a form of attentiveness to the needs and concerns of other people, an interactive practice with an ethico-political dimension. The term "mindfulness" comes from the ethics of care and is determined between the concepts of respect and human affection and is adjacent to both autonomy and attentive pause in the context of Buddhist meditation, which tends to in English with mindfulness called and sometimes as mindfulness is translated.

The ethical care concept of mindfulness

Within the ethics of care, “mindfulness” is understood as an interactive practice. Mindfulness is something that arises between people in their care and is experienced by them together. Interactions permeated by attentive care are rated as successful, and the ethico-political dimension of action is also taken into account. For example, “organizational-institutional, structural and political framework conditions for social interactions are also included in the reflection”. According to Elisabeth Conradi , "mindful care" means u. a. “To get involved in the [current] situation and to devote one's own attention to at least one (other) person”. “People care about others, really get involved, maintain relationships and a certain commitment to each other. In this sense, the "practice of mindfulness" is more than an attitude of empathy , it does not just take place in the inner world of a person. After all, mindfulness also means waiting for the response to support: to hear how the attention has been received and to draw practical conclusions from it. "

literature

  • Elisabeth Conradi, Frans Vosman (ed.): Practice of mindfulness. Key Terms in Care Ethics. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2016, ISBN 978-3593506333 .
  • Elisabeth Conradi: Take Care. Basics of an ethic of mindfulness. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3593367606 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frans Vosman, Elisabeth Conradi: Introduction - key terms of care ethics. In: Elisabeth Conradi, Frans Vosman (Ed.): Practice of Mindfulness. Key Terms in Care Ethics. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2016, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Frans Vosman, Elisabeth Conradi: Introduction - key terms of care ethics. In: Elisabeth Conradi, Frans Vosman (Ed.): Practice of Mindfulness. Key Terms in Care Ethics. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2016, p. 16.