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The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology |
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Gold, Jonathan C. (著)
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Journal of Religious Ethics
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| Volume | v.51 n.2 |
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| Date | 2023.06 |
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| Pages | 321 - 341 |
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| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
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http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 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 | Author Affiliation: Princeton University, USA. |
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| Keyword | Buddhist philosophy; Nāgārjuna; Mūlamadhyamakakārikā; skepticism; self-undermining; pragmatism; relativism; nihilism |
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| Abstract | This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment to views.” On the other hand, Buddhist traditions of practice recommend actions based in compassion and loving kindness, and the cultivation of contentment, introspective awareness, and peace of mind. It is argued that these arenas are not in conflict, but are linked through Buddhist psychology, wherein the proven limitations of concepts are quite explicitly leveraged to show that beings hampered by such limits ought to think and act with epistemic humility. The result is not nihilism, but a method for improving our perspectives on ourselves and our society—a method that may serve as a model for humanistic research. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 321
1 Introduction 321
2 The Moral Significance of Skepticism 324
3 Logical Self-Undermining 325
4 Pragmatic Self-Undermining 329
5 Fruitlessness 332
6 Nihilism 336
7 Conclusion 338
Acknowledgments 339
REFERENCES 339 |
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| ISSN | 03849694 (P); 14679795 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12433 |
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| Hits | 51 |
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| Created date | 2024.04.15 |
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| Modified date | 2024.04.17 |
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