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Consequences of Compassion - An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover)
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Consequences of Compassion - An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (Hardcover)
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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.
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