A Response to John Pettit

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A Response to John Pettit
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Making Sense of Śāntideva's Vision of Reality (Philosophy)


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John Pettit has written an eminently intelligent, scholarly, and detailed review of my book Altruism and Reality. For this I am extremely grateful. I am not sure, however, that I agree with some of his more critical points, and it may be of some value to try and formulate a tentative response to what seems to me to be his two main contentions: (a) that Mi pham, contrary to what I imply in my book, does not hold in any obvious way to a gzhan stong position, at least if the gzhan stong position is held to involve some sort of absolutism; and (b) that my attack on Śāntideva's inference from no self to altruism at BCA 8:101–3 is misplaced because I have ignored the relevance of the innate misapprehension of self, to be undermined for the Madhyamaka in particular through meditation in addition to philosophical analysis. (Williams, "A Response to John Pettit," 138) Read more here

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Williams, Paul. "A Response to John Pettit." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 138-154. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/04/williams991.pdf.
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John Pettit's review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, by Paul Williams, published in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 120-37.