Boundary Matters:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Boundary Matters: "
Peter Timmerman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085913
Doc. No	:	LA129542
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156853510X498069‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Peter Timmerman
Title & Author	:	Boundary Matters: [Article] : Buddhism and the Genetic Prospect\ Peter Timmerman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	14/1
Page No	:	68–82
Abstract	:	This paper considers genetic engineering in the context of Buddhist ethics. Rather than considering a standard set of ethical approaches, this paper instead uses the “fox koan” of Zen Buddhism to explore the dynamics and consequences of the “genetic project”. Focussing particularly on the prospect of an unbounded and unlimited dissolution of hitherto assumed boundaries, it argues that current “disembedding” of genetic information is analogous to the denial of karma as presented in the fox koan. This provides a different entry into ethical evaluation from a Buddhist perspective, This paper considers genetic engineering in the context of Buddhist ethics. Rather than considering a standard set of ethical approaches, this paper instead uses the “fox koan” of Zen Buddhism to explore the dynamics and consequences of the “genetic project”. Focussing particularly on the prospect of an unbounded and unlimited dissolution of hitherto assumed boundaries, it argues that current “disembedding” of genetic information is analogous to the denial of karma as presented in the fox koan. This provides a different entry into ethical evaluation from a Buddhist perspective,
Descriptor	:	Buddhist ethics
Descriptor	:	disembedding
Descriptor	:	fox koan
Descriptor	:	genetic engineering
Descriptor	:	karma
Descriptor	:	Ludwig Wittgenstein
Descriptor	:	Otto Weininger
Descriptor	:	Stanley Cavell
Descriptor	:	SymBiosis
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156853510X498069‬