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Indian Buddhist Philosophy - Metaphysics as Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Indian Buddhist Philosophy - Metaphysics as Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ancient Philosophies
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Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the
philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers
of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter
examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views
as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call
today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key
themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for
most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the
appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian
Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that
deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter
shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances
between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and
key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian
Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained
and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown
to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the
features of European philosophy and considers themes central to
philosophy understood in the European tradition.
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