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Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman: Western and Buddhist Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue
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- A Fearless Heart
- A Mirror Is for Reflection
- Altruism as Antidote to Demagoguery: Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 3 as Method for Countering Identity Divisions
- An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
- Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Buddhist Ethics and Globalization on the Basis of Bodhicaryavatara
- Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
- Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
- Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
- Consequences of Compassion
- Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics-Review by Meyers
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
- Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
- Emptiness and Moral Perfection
- Enlightenment to Go
- Ethics (Garfield)
- Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman
- Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
- Guidance for the Spiritual Caregiver from the Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva
- Healing Anger
- Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
- Moral Pluralism, Skillful Means, and Environmental Ethics
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
- On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
- On Learning to Overhear the "Vanishing Poet"
- On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Patience and Perspective
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Puṇya and Pāp in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
- Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
- Shantideva: How to Wake Up a Hero
- Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
- The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
- The Social Message of Mahayana Buddhism
- The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
- Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
- Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
- Śāntideva on Roots and Resolutions of Violence
- Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
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Description
This volume of essays offers direct comparisons of historic Western and Buddhist perspectives on ethics and metaphysics, tracing parallels and contrasts all the way from Plato to the Stoics, Spinoza to Hume, and Schopenhauer through to contemporary ethicists such as Arne Naess, Charles Taylor and Derek Parfit. It compares and contrasts each Western philosopher with a particular strand in the Buddhist tradition, in some chapters represented by individual writers such as Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Santideva or Tsong Khapa. It does so in light of both analytic concerns and themes from the existentialist and phenomenological traditions, and often in an ecumenical spirit that bridges both analytic and continentalist approaches.
Some of the deepest questions in ethics, dealing with the scope of agency, value-laden notions of personhood and the nature of value in general, are intertwined with questions in metaphysics. One set of questions addresses how varying conceptions of selfhood relate to moral values (e.g. the concern of self or selves for the well-being of others); another set of questions addresses how a conception of oneself or one’s selves should or should not affect how one thinks of happiness, or eudaimonia, or – in classical Indian terms – artha, sukha or nirvana. Western philosophy has featured discussion of both, but some would argue that certain traditions of Asian philosophy have offered a more sustained and even treatment of both sets of questions. The Buddhist tradition in particular has not only featured much discussion on both fronts, but has attracted many contemporary philosophers to its distinctive spectrum of approaches, and to what is – from many ‘Western’ points of view – a seemingly subversive analysis of ego, selfhood and personhood, whether in metaphysical, phenomenological or other incarnations. (Source: Springer)
Citation
Davis, Gordon F., ed. Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman: Western and Buddhist Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 24. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018.
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Table of contents
- 1. Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview1
- Gordon F. Davis
- 2. The Ethics of Self-Knowledge in Platonic and Buddhist Philosophy21
- Michael Griffin
- 3. Detachment in Buddhist and Stoic Ethics: Ataraxia and Apatheia and Equanimity73
- Emily McRae
- 4. Skepticism and Religious Practice in Sextus and Nagarjuna91
- Ethan Mills
- 5. Spinoza Through the Prism of Later 'East-West' Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and
the Works of Early Spinozists107 - Gordon F. Davis and Mary D. Renaud
- 6. Hume as a Western Madhyamika: The Case from Ethics131
- Jay L. Garfield
- 7. Anatta and Ethics: Kantian and Buddhist Themes145
- Erner O'Hagan
- 8. The Contingency of Willing: A Vijñānavāda Critique of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche161
- Douglas L. Berger
- 9. Selfless Care? Heidegger and anatta179
- Sonia Sikka
- 10. Echoes of Anattā and Buddhist Ethics in William James and Bertrand Russell?197
- Nalini Ramlakhan
- 11. Altruism in t he Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism, and Benevolence219
- Stephan Harris
- 12. The Ethics of Interconnectedness: Charles Taylor, No-Self, and Buddhism235
- Ashwani Peetush
- 13. Variations on Anātman: Buddhist Themes in Deep Ecology and in Future-Directed Environmental Ethics253
- Gordon F. Davis and Pragati Sahni
- Index275
Interconnections
4 Contains chapter or part
Examines verses in the 8th chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with attention paid to the argument that given the nonexistence of a self we ought to commit to impartial benevolence.
In this chapter Jay Garfield examines the deep affinities between Hume’s approach to ethics and that of the Indian Mādhyamika ethicists.
In this chapter Gordon Davis asks whether a transformation in our understanding of selfhood might well have profound ethical implications – implications within ethics.
In this article Gordon F. Davis and Mary D. Renaud examine Spinoza's ethics on his own terms and ask how his ideas compare to those of Buddhist ethics.
