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| Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103 | ||
| 作者 | Harris, Stephen (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.18 |
| 出版日期 | 2011 |
| 頁次 | 93 - 123 |
| 出版者 | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
| 出版者網址 | https://history.la.psu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | University Park, PA, US |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Stephen Harris, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico. Email: Sharris4@unm.edu. |
| 摘要 | In the eighth chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Buddhist philosopher Śāntideva has often been interpreted as offering an argument that accepting the ultimate nonexistence of the self (anātman) rationally entails a commitment to altruism, the view that one should care equally for self and others. In this essay, I consider reconstructions of Śāntideva’s argument by contemporary scholars Paul Williams, Mark Siderits and John Pettit. I argue that all of these various reconfigurations of the argument fail to be convincing. This suggests that, for Madhyamaka Buddhists, an understanding of anātman does not entail acceptance of the Bodhisattva path, but rather is instrumental to achieving it. Second, it suggests the possibility that in these verses, Śāntideva was offering meditational techniques, rather than making an argument for altruism from the premise of anātman. |
| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 826 |
| 建檔日期 | 2011.05.05 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.04.15 |
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