Consequences of Compassion
An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 July 2009
- ISBN 9780195375190
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 160x236x27 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the theoretical structure of Buddhist accounts of morality, defends them against objections, and discusses their implications for free will, the justification of punishment, and other issues.
MoreLong description:
To many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist tradition pertain to ethics. Many readers have drawn inspiration from Buddhism's emphasis on compassion, nonviolence, and tolerance, its concern for animals, and its models of virtue and self-cultivation. There has been, however, controversy and confusion about which Western ethical theories resemble Buddhist views and in what respects. In this book, Charles Goodman illuminates the relations between Buddhist concepts and Western ethical theories. Every version of Buddhist ethics, says Goodman, takes the welfare of sentient beings to be the only source of moral obligations. Buddhist ethics can thus be said to be based on compassion in the sense of a motivation to pursue the welfare of others. On this interpretation, the fundamental basis of the various forms of Buddhist ethics is the same as that of the welfarist members of the family of ethical theories that analytic philosophers call 'consequentialism.' Goodman uses this hypothesis to illuminate a variety of questions. He examines the three types of compassion practiced in Buddhism and argues for their implications for important issues in applied ethics, especially the justification of punishment and the question of equality.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Fundamental Buddhist Teachings
Main Features of some Western Ethical Theories
Theravada Ethics as Rule-Consequentialism
Mahayana Ethics Before Santideva
Santideva and After
Transcending Ethics
Buddhist Ethics and the Demands of Consequentialism
Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
Punishment
Objections and Replies
A Buddhist Response to Kant
Conclusion
