Jay L Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies, Chair of the Philosophy department, and director of the Logic program at Smith College. He is also Visiting Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He has taught in Australia, Singapore, Japan and Germany and is a regular lecturer at major universities, Buddhist Studies centers and research institutions around the world. Professor Garfield is author, co-author, or editor of 30 books and over 180 articles and book reviews.
關鍵詞
Buddhism; ethics; moral phenomenology; particularism; brahmavihāras; vows; Engaged Buddhism
摘要
This volume is one of a series of monographs on Buddhist philosophy for philosophers. It presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought, presenting Buddhist ethical reflection as a distinct approach, or rather set of approaches, to moral philosophy. The book draws on a range of Buddhist philosophers to exhibit the internal diversity of the tradition as well as the lineaments that demonstrate its overarching integrity. This includes early Pāli texts, medieval Indian commentarial literature and philosophical treatises, Tibetan commentaries and treatises, and contemporary Buddhist literature. It argues that Buddhist ethics is best understood not as a species of any Western ethical tradition, but instead as a kind of moral phenomenology, and that it is particularist in its orientation. The book addresses both methodological and doctrinal issues and concludes with a study of the way that Buddhist ethical thought is relevant in the contemporary world.
目次
Preface Part I: Structure 1. Methodological Introduction 2. The Broad Structure of Buddhist Ethics 3. Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology 4. Agency and Action Theory 5. Narrative in Buddhist Ethics Part II: Doctrine 6. The Four Noble Truths 7. Path as a Structure for Buddhist Ethics 8. The Six Perfections and the Bodhisattva Path 9. The Brahmavih?ras and the Achievement of Nonegocentricity 10. The Importance of Vow Part III: Contemporary Issues 11. Naturalism 12. Engaged Buddhism 13. Coda: What Buddhist Ethics Brings to the Table References
