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Keywords: Buddhist philosophy, Indian Buddhism, Buddha, Four Noble Truths. In what is remembered in Buddhist traditions as the first discourse of the Buddha, the Buddha outlined Four Noble Truths that framed the basic doctrine of the early Buddhist tradition and the Theravāda tradition today.
This paper focuses on ethical action in Theravada Buddhism. To do so requires a definition of ethics and morals on the one hand, and ethic and moral on the other. It also requires a discussion of the difference, if any, between moral actions and other normative actions, such as law, rituals, customs, and etiquette.
Abstract. This article defends and develops the categorization of Bud-dhist ethics as moral phenomenology. It first examines the use of the term in Western philosophical settings and com-pares it to how the term is employed in Buddhist settings.
‘Buddhist morality’ argues that there is a common moral code underlying the divergent customs, practices, and philosophical teachings of the various schools of Buddhist thought. Branches as diverse as Zen and Tibetan Buddhism have still stemmed from the values of the Buddha in the 5th century bc .
Buddhist Ethics. 1. Introduction: Ethics and Interdependence. There are two temptations to be resisted when approaching Buddhist moral theory. The first is to assimilate Buddhist ethics to some system of Western ethics, usually either some form of Utilitarianism or some form of virtue ethics.
1 Σεπ 2004 · Firstly, Buddhism teaches principles for peaceful life. According to Harvey (2000), in Buddhist ethics, every person is a friend, which means that each individual should be treated as a...
The first part of the article discusses Buddhism and medicine and outlines some of the main issues in contemporary medical ethics. In the rest of the paper three subjects are considered: (1) moral personhood, (2) abortion, and (3) death, dying and euthanasia.
