Ego-Less Agency: Dharma-Responsiveness Without Kantian Autonomy
My critical focus in this article is on Rick Repetti's compatibilist conception of free will, and his apparent commitment to a Kantian conception of autonomy, which I argue is in direct conflict with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. As an alternative, I defend a conception of ego-less agency t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 497-518 |
| Review of: | Buddhism, meditation, and free will (Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, 2018) (Cummiskey, David)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BL Buddhism NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
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Free Will
B Book review B Buddhism B Agency B Kantian B Pudgalavadin B No-self B Moral Responsibility B Autonomy B Christine Korsgaard B reason-responsiveness |
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| Summary: | My critical focus in this article is on Rick Repetti's compatibilist conception of free will, and his apparent commitment to a Kantian conception of autonomy, which I argue is in direct conflict with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. As an alternative, I defend a conception of ego-less agency that I believe better coheres with core Buddhist teachings. In the course of the argument, I discuss the competing conceptions of free agency and autonomy defended by Harry Frankfurt, John Martin Fischer, Christine Korsgaard, and David Velleman. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "A Defense of Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will (2020)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12601 |