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| A Study of Early Buddhist Ethics in Comparison with Classical Confucianist Ethics | ||
| 作者 | An, Ok-sun |
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| 出版日期 | 1995 |
| 頁次 | 249 |
| 出版者 | University of Hawaii |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.hawaii.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| 畢業年度 | 1995 |
| 附註項 | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-249)Microfiche. Honolulu：University of Hawaii Library, 1995. 5microfiches：negative; 11 x 15 cm |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhist ethics; Confucian ethics; 慈悲心=Loving Kindness=Compassion; Ethics; Comparative study |
| 摘要 | The purpose of this study is to explore early Buddhist ethics in comparison with classical Confucianist ethics and to show similarities. The study suggests that the popular belief that the two ethical systems are radically different from each other needs to be reconsidered. When a focus is given to the development, transformation, and realization of the self, a similar framework (except the metaphysical groundworks of morals) is revealed in the two ethical systems. Furthermore, this study intends to reject the popular thesis: early Buddhism is only self-liberation-concerned soteriology and classical Confucianism is only society-concerned thought requiring self-effacement. My understanding of the core virtue of self-transformation is as compassion (karuna) in early Buddhism and benevolence (jen) in classical Confucianism. So this study is focused on the analysis of compassion and benevolence by examining their metaphysical grounds, their functional mechanisms, their applications, and their meta-ethical nature. The metaphysical groundworks of morals (and so of the virtues of compassion and benevolence) are explained in terms of the rebirth and kamma theory, and the theory of Mandate of Heaven. For a person to develop and achieve these core virtues, this study shows the significant role of self-restraining or self-overcoming, the principle of extension from near to far, self-oriented motivation for the core virtue, both-regarding position (self-regarding and other-regarding), and the important role of both sympathetic feeling and reason. In the domain of social interaction, compassion and benevolence appear in the area of education and politics as tools for achieving happiness for both oneself and others. In politics, the paradigmatic model is adopted: a ruler as an embodiment of the virtue rules a country by being a moral example to the people. The analysis of the core virtues in terms of moral objective shows the inseparability of factual knowledge from moral practice, the universal acceptability of the virtue, and the possibility of maintaining objectivity by taking both-regarding action. |
| 點閱次數 | 282 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.05.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.05.10 |
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