‘Freedom/Ignorance’: Buddhist-Ontological Non-Duality and Metaethics in an Age of Terror
This essay considers some meta-ethical questions that emerge from a consideration of the phenomena of terrorism in the context of Buddhist metaphysics: what, in the Buddhist view, ultimately causes terrorism (and its subsidiary effects)? What resources do the Buddhist metaphysical claims of no-self,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2013
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Sophia
Year: 2013, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 381-395 |
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Terrorism
B Buddhist meta-ethics B Non-dual ontology B No-self B Buddhist hermeneutics |
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| Summary: | This essay considers some meta-ethical questions that emerge from a consideration of the phenomena of terrorism in the context of Buddhist metaphysics: what, in the Buddhist view, ultimately causes terrorism (and its subsidiary effects)? What resources do the Buddhist metaphysical claims of no-self, karma, emptiness and related concepts bring to a meta-ethical understanding of terrorism and its effects? |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-012-0309-1 |