Buddhist ethics: a philosophical exploration
"'Buddhist Ethics' presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought. It is not a defense of Buddhist approaches to ethics as opposed to any other, nor is it a critique of the Western tradition. Garfield presents a broad overview of a range of Buddhist approaches to the question of moral philosophy. He argues that while there are important points of contact with these Western frameworks, Buddhist ethics is distinctive, and is a kind of moral phenomenology that is concerned with the ways in which …
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- Full title :Buddhist ethics : a philosophical exploration / Jay L. Garfield.
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"'Buddhist Ethics' presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought. It is not a defense of Buddhist approaches to ethics as opposed to any other, nor is it a critique of the Western tradition. Garfield presents a broad overview of a range of Buddhist approaches to the question of moral philosophy. He argues that while there are important points of contact with these Western frameworks, Buddhist ethics is distinctive, and is a kind of moral phenomenology that is concerned with the ways in which we experience ourselves as agents and others as moral fellows"--
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- Publication Date:©2022
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 231 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190907631, 0190907630, 9780190907648, 0190907649
- oclc:on1268206054
- LC Classification:BJ1289
- Dewey Decimal:294.35
Table of Contents
Pt. I STRUCTURE -- 1. Methodological Introduction -- 2. The Broad Structure of Buddhist Ethics -- 3. Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology -- 4. Agency and Moral Psychology -- 5. Narrative in Buddhist Ethics -- pt. II DOCTRINE -- 6. The Four Noble Truths -- 7. Path as a Structure for Buddhist Ethics -- 8. The Six Perfections in the Mahayana -- 9. The Brahmaviharas and the Achievement of Nonegocentricity -- 10. The Importance of Vow -- pt. III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- 11. Naturalism -- 12. Engaged Buddhism -- 13. Coda: What Buddhist Ethics Brings to the Table.
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