This Precious Human Life: Human Exceptionalism and Altruism in Tibetan Buddhism
Abstract This paper analyzes the idea of “human exceptionalism” from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism. It argues that, in the Tibetan Buddhist context, many of the negative consequences of human exceptionalism are overshadowed by the concept’s ability to promote an altruistic comportment to the m...
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Brill
2021
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Worldviews
Year: 2021, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 239-255 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lamaism
/ World view
/ Anthropocentrism
/ Altruism
/ Environmental ethics (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BL Buddhism KBM Asia NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
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Axiology
B human exceptionalism B Tibetan Buddhism B Comparative Philosophy B Environmental Ethics |
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