Free Your Mind: Buddhism, Causality, and the Free Will Problem
The problem of free will is associated with a specific and significant kind of control over our actions, which is understood primarily in the sense that we have the freedom to do otherwise or the capacity for self-determination. Is Buddhism compatible with such a conception of free will? The aim of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 461-473 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Causality
/ Free will
/ Self-determination
/ Neurobiology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion BL Buddhism |
| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Consciousness B Meditation B Causation B Moral Responsibility B conscious will B Buddhist ethics |
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| Summary: | The problem of free will is associated with a specific and significant kind of control over our actions, which is understood primarily in the sense that we have the freedom to do otherwise or the capacity for self-determination. Is Buddhism compatible with such a conception of free will? The aim of this article is to address three critical issues concerning the free will problem: (1) what role should accounts of physical and neurobiological processes play in discussions of free will? (2) Is a conception of mental autonomy grounded in practices of meditative cultivation compatible with the three cardinal Buddhist doctrines of momentariness, dependent arising, and no-self? (3) Are there enough resources in Buddhism, given its antisubstantialist metaphysics, to account for personal agency, self-control, and moral responsibility? |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12586 |