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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.
The book applies Buddhist ethics ff to a range of issues of contemporary concern: humanity’s relation-ship with the rest of nature; economics; war and peace; euthana-sia; abortion; sexual equality; and homosexuality.
5 Φεβ 2013 · This chapter shows how some forms of Buddhist ethics share features with Western moral philosophies, especially virtue ethics and consequentialism. Interpreting various forms of Buddhist...
Buddhist practice and teachings vary widely, with three major branches or traditions (namely, Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna), numerous schools of thought, and divergence in rituals and customs across Buddhist cultural areas.
Professor Harvey draws on texts of the main Buddhist traditions, and on historical and contemporary accounts of the behaviour of Buddhists, to describe existing Buddhist ethics, to assess different views within it, and to extend its application into new areas.
This paper will defend and develop this moral phenomenological approach to Buddhist ethics. It will do so by finding analogues to this idea in Western philosophy and by reviewing the earlier work done on Bud-dhist moral phenomenology by Jay Garfield, Daniel Aitken, and Jessica Locke.
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.
