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Negative Utilitarianism and Buddhist Intuition |
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Contestabile, Bruno
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.15 n.2 |
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| Date | 2014.11 |
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| Pages | 298 - 311 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. Includes bibliographical references;
2. Full text available from https://www.socrethics.com/Folder2/Buddhism.htm |
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| Keyword | Buddhist Doctrines; Satisfaction; Utilitarianism |
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| Abstract | Starting point:Serge-Christoph Kolm suggests that ‘Buddhism advocating minimizing dukkha (pain, dissatisfaction)—rather than maximizing sukkha (from which “sugar” comes) may be a kind of negative welfarism’(Kolm2006, 8). Christoph Fehige, after suggesting that ‘Maximizers of preference satisfaction should instead call themselves minimizers of preference frustration’, concludes that Buddha is on his side (Fehige1998, 518, 522).
Type of Problem:What are the common intuitions of negative utilitarianism and Buddhism?
Result:Negative utilitarianism and Buddhism share the following intuitions: Negative utilitarianism—understood as an umbrella term—models the asymmetry between suffering and happiness and therefore accords with the Buddhist intuition of universal compassion. The Noble Truths of Buddhism accord with the negative utilitarian intuition that (global) suffering cannot be compensated by happiness. Some forms of Buddhism and negative utilitarianism share the intuition that non-existence is a perfect state. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 298
The positive utilitarian intuition 298
The negative utilitarian intuition 301
Non-existence as the lesser evil 303
Non-existence as a perfect state 306
Intuition and interest 309
Conclusion 310
Acknowledgements 310 |
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2014.932488 |
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| Created date | 2015.11.11 |
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| Modified date | 2022.05.17 |
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