Journal ArticleMindfulness · September 1, 2024
Throughout the history of philosophy, ethics has often been a source of guidance on how to live a meaningful life. Accordingly, when the ethical foundations of mindfulness are considered, an important question arises concerning the role of meditation in pr ...
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Journal ArticlePhilosophy East and West · August 2024
Unlike Western philosophers, classical Buddhist thinkers largely remained silent about socio-political issues and did not develop explicit frameworks for theorizing them. The present article reconstructs a Buddhist account of shared ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2024
Becoming a good person requires sustained effort. One needs to repeatedly apply oneself to the exercise of virtuous mental states, constantly correct flaws in one's internal attitudes and external behavior, and maintain a moral vision that guides one's eff ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Philosophy: An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy · July 26, 2021Full textOpen AccessCite
Book · September 30, 2020
Questions such as these as well as related issues are explored in this collection, which brings together examinations of systematic doubt in the traditions of Buddhism from a variety of perspectives. ...
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Journal ArticleSophia · December 1, 2018
It is a common view in modern scholarship on Buddhist ethics that attachment to the self constitutes a hindrance to ethics, whereas rejecting this type of attachment is a necessary condition for acting morally. The present article argues that in Vasubandhu ...
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Journal ArticleSophia · June 1, 2018
Derek Parfit’s early work on the metaphysics of persons has had a vast influence on Western philosophical debates about the nature of personal identity and moral theory. Within the study of Buddhism, it also has sparked a continuous comparative discourse, ...
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