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The Forerunner of All Things - Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency (Hardcover, New)
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The Forerunner of All Things - Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency (Hardcover, New)
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Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action
(karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how
intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early
Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of
intention and motivation as they are investigated in Buddhist moral
psychology. At stake is how we understand karma, the nature of
moral experience, and the possibilities for freedom. In contrast to
many studies that assimilate Buddhist moral thinking to Western
theories of ethics, the book attends to distinctively Buddhist ways
of systematizing and theorizing their own categories. Arguing that
meaning is a product of the explanatory systems used to explore it,
the book pays particular attention to genre and to the 5th-century
commentator Buddhaghosa's guidance on how to read Buddhist texts.
The book treats all branches of the Pali canon (the Tipitaka, that
is, the Suttas, the Abhidhamma, and the Vinaya), as well as
narrative sources (the Dhammapada and the Jataka commentaries). In
this sense it offers a comprehensive treatment of intention in the
canonical Theravada sources. But the book goes further than this by
focusing explicitly on the body of commentarial thought represented
by Buddhaghosa. His work is at the center of the book's
investigations, both insofar as he offers interpretative strategies
for reading canonical texts, but also as he advances particular
understandings of agency and moral psychology. The book offers the
first book-length study devoted to Buddhaghosa's thought on ethics
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