BUDDHISM AND WESTERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY
As a strategy to better understand Buddhist ethics, this work seeks to answer the question: with which family of western moral theories could we relate this theory? Against interpretations that characterize it as deontic, consequentialist, or more recent interpretations that consider it as a form of...
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doaj-0c65f8d53f1342789eb89a0a4cfe0cab2020-11-24T23:39:30ZengUniversidad de CaldasRevista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos1900-98951900-98952018-07-01142385510.17151/rlee.2018.14.2.3BUDDHISM AND WESTERN MORAL PHILOSOPHYDiana Hoyos Valdés0Universidad de CaldasAs a strategy to better understand Buddhist ethics, this work seeks to answer the question: with which family of western moral theories could we relate this theory? Against interpretations that characterize it as deontic, consequentialist, or more recent interpretations that consider it as a form of ethics of care, I will argue in favor of interpret it as closer to virtue ethics. My main argument in favor of this thesis is that both –Buddhist ethics and Virtue ethics- have to do fundamentally with the notion of self-cultivation or self-care.http://latinoamericana.ucaldas.edu.co/downloads/Latinoamericana14(2)_3.pdfBuddhismnirvanavirtue ethicseudaimoniaself-cultivation |
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As a strategy to better understand Buddhist ethics, this work seeks to answer the question: with which family of western moral theories could we relate this theory? Against interpretations that characterize it as deontic, consequentialist, or more recent interpretations that consider it as a form of ethics of care, I will argue in favor of interpret it as closer to virtue ethics. My main argument in favor of this thesis is that both –Buddhist ethics and Virtue ethics- have to do fundamentally with the notion of self-cultivation or self-care. |
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