- The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Karma
- The Bodhisattva Precepts
- Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom
- Moral Development in the <i>Jātaka</i>s, <i>Avadāna</i>s, and Pāli <i>Nikāya</i>s
- The <i>Vinaya</i>
- <i>Bhikṣuṇī</i> Ordination
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Ethics in Pure Land Schools
- A Perspective on Ethics in the <i>Lotus Sūtra</i>
- Ethics in Zen
- Tantric Ethics
- Buddhist Ethics in South and Southeast Asia
- East Asian Buddhist Ethics
- Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet
- Buddhist Ethics Compared to Western Ethics
- The Psychology of Moral Judgment and Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics
- Ethics without Norms?: Buddhist Reductionism and the Logical Space of Reasons
- The Buddhist Just Society
- Buddhist Economics: Problems and Possibilities
- Buddhist Environmental Ethics: An Emergent and Contextual Approach
- Buddhism, War, and Violence
- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in Asia
- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in the West
- Human Rights
- Buddhism and Women
- Buddhism and Sexuality
- Buddhist Perspectives on Abortion and Reproduction
- Euthanasia
- Being and Its Other: Suicide in Buddhist Ethics
- Buddhism and Animal Rights
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The three main ethical theories in Western philosophy can be used as a framework from which to bring out the features of Buddhist ethics; hermeneutical questions regarding the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of comparison; a consideration of Buddhist ethics as virtue ethics, centring around the notions of practices, narratives, and traditions, as proposed by MacIntyre, including a discussion of relativism in the context of naturalism, the fact/value gap, and cognitivism/non-cognitivism; a critique of consequentialism including a discussion of Goodman and Singer on altruism and compassion, agent-neutrality, and personhood, especially the bodhisattva-ideal; a critique of deontology that argues that there are no moral absolutes, and that only the wise can establish in a particular situation what is right, that is, what leads to a more awakened state. Conclusion: a discussion of why it is fruitful to see Buddhist ethics as a member of the family of (neo-Aristotelian) virtue ethical theories.
Keywords: virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism, fact/value, cognitivism, naturalism, MacIntyre, Aristotle, altruism, agent-neutrality
Sīlavādin Meynard Vasen studied philosophy in Holland and Belgium. His research interests are ethics, phenomenology, and analytical philosophy of mind, especially the area around subjectivity and selfhood. He is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Karma
- The Bodhisattva Precepts
- Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom
- Moral Development in the <i>Jātaka</i>s, <i>Avadāna</i>s, and Pāli <i>Nikāya</i>s
- The <i>Vinaya</i>
- <i>Bhikṣuṇī</i> Ordination
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Ethics in Pure Land Schools
- A Perspective on Ethics in the <i>Lotus Sūtra</i>
- Ethics in Zen
- Tantric Ethics
- Buddhist Ethics in South and Southeast Asia
- East Asian Buddhist Ethics
- Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet
- Buddhist Ethics Compared to Western Ethics
- The Psychology of Moral Judgment and Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics
- Ethics without Norms?: Buddhist Reductionism and the Logical Space of Reasons
- The Buddhist Just Society
- Buddhist Economics: Problems and Possibilities
- Buddhist Environmental Ethics: An Emergent and Contextual Approach
- Buddhism, War, and Violence
- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in Asia
- The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in the West
- Human Rights
- Buddhism and Women
- Buddhism and Sexuality
- Buddhist Perspectives on Abortion and Reproduction
- Euthanasia
- Being and Its Other: Suicide in Buddhist Ethics
- Buddhism and Animal Rights
- Index
