A Mirror Is for Reflection
Understanding Buddhist Ethics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 August 2017
- ISBN 9780190499778
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 162x244x25 mm
- Weight 683 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist ethical thought. It includes contributions of many of the leading scholars in this field, on topics including the nature of Buddhist ethics, karma and rebirth, mindfulness, narrative, intention, free will, politics, anger, and equanimity.
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This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist ethical thought for interested students and scholars, yet also offers chapters taking up more technical philosophical and textual topics. A Mirror is For Reflection offers a snapshot of the present state of academic investigation into the nature of Buddhist Ethics, including contributions from many of the leading figures in the academic study of Buddhist philosophy. Over the past decade many scholars have come to think that the project of fitting Buddhist ethical thought into Western philosophical categories may be of limited utility, and the focus of investigation has shifted in a number of new directions. This volume includes contemporary perspectives on topics including the nature of Buddhist ethics as a whole, karma and rebirth, mindfulness, narrative, intention, free will, politics, anger, and equanimity.
The paradox of Buddhist ethics, as any philosophical paradox, can humble people in their dangerous religious certainties and start them wondering afresh about the best way to live their lives during troubling times. Buddhist practitioners are also credited to provide strong exemplars in the world of people who practice what they preach (or rather, decline to preach) and who strive for modest, morally exemplary lives, grounded in kindness. After all, if there is no self, what point exists in acting self-servingly? For these reasons alone, Buddhist ethics constitutes a worthy contemplation. Thanks for this new volume that rethinks how that paradox arises and how it may be resolved, for that inquiry itself constitutes good works.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Buddhist Ethics and Western Categories
"It's ethics, Jim, but not as we know it": Reflections on the Absence of Moral Philosophy in Buddhism
The Nature of a Buddhist Path
Buddhist Moral Thought and Western Moral Philosophy
Part Two: Constructing Buddhist Ethics
Zen Buddhism and the Space of Ethics
Buddhist Ethics: A Perspective
Breaking Good: Moral Agency, Neuroethics, and the Spontaneity of Compassion
Part Three: Karma and Rebirth
Modern and Traditional Understandings of Karma
Buddhism without Reincarnation? Examining the Prospects of a "Naturalized" Buddhism
The Problems and Promise of Karma from an Engaged Buddhist Perspective
Part Four: Mindfulness, Memory, and Virtue
Ethical Reading and the Ethics of Forgetting and Remembering
Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue, and Perfection
"When You Know for Yourselves": Mindfulness, Wisdom, and the Qualities of Heart
Part Five: Intention and Action
The Dynamics of Intention, Freedom, and Habituation according to Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhasya
What Do Buddhists Think about Free Will?
Buddhist Reductionist Action Theory
Part Six: Politics, Anger, and Equanimity
The Inherent Dignity of Empty Persons
Ethics Without Justice: Eliminating The Roots Of Resentment
Equanimity in Relationship: Responding to Moral Ugliness
Index
