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" Ethics without self, dharma without atman : "
Gordon F. Davis, editor.
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864061
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Ethics without self, dharma without atman : : Western and Buddhist philosophical traditions in dialogue /\ Gordon F. Davis, editor.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, [2018]
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Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures ;; volume 24
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1 online resource
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3319674064
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3319674064
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9783319674063
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Self-sceptical ethics and selfless morality: a historical and cross-cultural overview / Gordon F. Davis -- The ethics of self-knowledge in Platonic and Buddhist philosophy / Michael Griffin -- Detatchment in Buddhist and Stoic ethics: Ataraxia and Apatheia and equanimity / Emily McRae -- Skepticism and religious practice in Sextus and Nāgārjuna / Ethan Mills -- Spinoza through the prism of later "east-west" exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist themes in the Ethics and Works of Early Spinozists / Gordon F. Davis and Mary D. Renaud -- Hume as a western Māhyamika: the case from ethics / Jay L. Garfield -- Anattā and ethics: Kantian and Buddhist themes / Emer O'Hagan -- The contingency of willing: A Vijñānavāda critique of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche / Douglas L. Berger -- Selfless care? Heidegger and anattā / Sonia Sikka -- Echoes of anattā and Buddhist ethics in William James and Bertrand Russell / Nalini Ramlakhan -- Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, reductionism and benevolence / Stephen Harris -- The ethics of interconnectednes: Charles Taylor, no-self, and Buddhism / Ashwani Peetush -- Variations on Anātman: Buddhist themes in deep ecoloy and in future-directed environmental ethics / Gordon F. Davis and Pragati Sahni.
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This volume 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.
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Anātman.
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Buddhism and philosophy.
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Buddhist ethics.
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Ethics.
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Anātman.
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Buddhism and philosophy.
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Buddhist ethics.
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Ethics.
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Metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Reference.
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| Dewey Classification
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100
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BQ4600.E84 2018
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Davis, Gordon F., (Gordon Fraser),1971-
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