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| Against Holism: Rethinking Buddhist Environmental Ethics | ||
| 作者 | James, Simon P. |
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| 出處題名 | Environmental Values |
| 卷期 | v.16 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2007.11 |
| 頁次 | 447 - 461 |
| 出版者 | White Horse Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.whitehorsepress.com/ |
| 出版地 | Isle of Man, UK [曼島, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Emptiness; Holism; Virtue Ethics |
| 摘要 | Environmental thinkers sympathetic to Buddhism sometimes reason as follows: (1) A holistic view of the world, according to which humans are regarded as being ‘one’ with nature, will necessarily engender environmental concern; (2) the Buddhist teaching of ?emptiness' represents such a view; therefore (3) Buddhism is an environmentally-friendly religion. In this paper, I argue that the first premise of this argument is false (a holistic view of the world can be reconciled with a markedly eco-unfriendly attitude) as is the second (in speaking of emptiness, Buddhist thinkers are not proposing an ?ecological' conception of the world). Yet the conclusion is, I suggest, true: Buddhism is in certain respects environmentally-friendly, not for the reasons cited above, but because of the view, encapsulated in its teachings and practices, that certain dispositions to treat the natural environment well are an integral part of human well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| ISSN | 09632719 |
| 點閱次數 | 863 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.05.09 |
| 更新日期 | 2010.09.20 |
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