Cognitive science of religion; Cross-cultural psychology; Death anxiety; Personal identity; Self; Tibetan Buddhism
摘要
We discuss the structure of Buddhist theory, showing that it is a kind of moral phenomenology directed to the elimination of egoism through the elimination of a sense of self. We then ask whether being raised in a Buddhist culture in which the values of selflessness and the sense of non-self are so deeply embedded transforms one's sense of who one is, one's ethical attitudes and one's attitude towards death, and in particular whether those transformations are consistent with the predictions that Buddhist texts themselves make. We discover that the effects are often significant, but not always expected.
目次
1 Introduction: The Broad Structure of Buddhist Ethics 294 2 Action Theory and Karma 297 3 Virtue, Consequence and Obligation 298 4 The Bodhisattva Path and Buddhist Moral Psychology 299 5 What Might We Expect Buddhist Agents to Look Like? 300 6 What We Found: Metaphysics 301 7 What We Found: Ethics 302 References 304
