Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation

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Why are we worried about ethics, per se, in the context of conventional truth and the Madhyamaka understanding of the two truths? What is the special problem about ethics, once we understand that to take the two truths seriously is to take the conventional truth seriously as a truth? (Cowherds 2011). In this chapter, we argue that there is nothing to worry about; there is no special problem. Instead of solving a problem about ethics in the context of conventional truth, the project in this chapter is to dissolve an apparent problem. But this is Madhyamaka analysis, and so, following Tsongkhapa's practice (Cowherds 2011, esp. chapter 5) we must begin by identifying the object of negation, that is, to be clear about what we are arguing does not exist—in this case, the apparent problem. As we will see in subsequent chapters, however, demonstrating that the problem about ethics is not special does not by itself show that there are no difficulties in seeing how ethics is meant to go in the context of conventional truth. (Garfield, introduction, 77)

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Garfield, Jay, L. "Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation." In Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness, edited by The Cowherds, 77–95. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://jaygarfield.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/buddhist-ethics-in-the-context-of-conventional-truth.pdf.
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Contains essays exploring a variety of ways in which to understand important Buddhist texts on ethics and Mahayana moral theory.