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Consequences of Compassion - An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (Paperback)
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Consequences of Compassion - An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (Paperback)
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For many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist
tradition pertain to ethics. Buddhist ethical views have much in
common with certain modern ethical theories, and contain many
insights relevant to contemporary moral problems. In Consequences
of Compassion, Charles Goodman illuminates the relationship between
Buddhism and Western ethical theories. Buddhist texts offer an
interesting approach to the demands of morality and a powerful
critique of what we would identify as the concept of free will-a
critique which leads to a hard determinist view of human action.
But rather than being a threat to morality, this view supports
Buddhist values of compassion, nonviolence and forgiveness, and
leads to a more humane approach to the justification of punishment.
Drawing on Buddhist religious values, Goodman argues against the
death penalty and mandatory minimum sentences. 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. Goodman argues that the Buddhist tradition can and will
ultimately make important contributions to contemporary global
conversations about ethical issues while placing Buddhist views
into the mainstream of current ethical analysis.
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