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Examining the Bodhisattva's Brain |
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Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science
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| Volume | v.49 n.1 |
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| Date | 2014.03 |
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| Pages | 231 - 241 |
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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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| Keyword | ethics; eudaimonism; naturalism; neuroscience; Owen Flanagan; reductionism; virtue ethics; BODHISATTVA'S Brain: Buddhism Naturalized, The (Book) |
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| Abstract | Owen Flanagan's The Bodhisattva's Brain aims to introduce secular-minded thinkers to Buddhist thought and motivate its acceptance by analytic philosophers. I argue that Flanagan provides a compelling caution against the hasty generalizations of recent 'science of happiness' literature, which correlates happiness with Buddhism on the basis of certain neurological studies. I contend, however, that his positive account of Buddhist ethics is less persuasive. I question the level of engagement with Buddhist philosophical literature and challenge Flanagan's central claim, that a Buddhist version of eudaimonia is a common core conception shared by all Buddhists. I argue that this view is not only a rational reconstruction in need of argumentation but is in tension with competing Buddhist metaphysical theories of self, including the one Flanagan himself endorses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN | 05912385 (P); 14679744 (E) |
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| Hits | 193 |
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| Created date | 2014.10.15 |
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| Modified date | 2020.01.06 |
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