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| Critical Evaluation of the Buddhist Methods of Arriving at Valid Ethical Judgments | ||
| 作者 | Dhammarama, Bhikkhu B. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Sri Lanka International Journal of Buddhist Studies (SIJBS) |
| 卷期 | v.8 |
| 出版日期 | 2022 |
| 頁次 | 1 - 16 |
| 出版者 | SIBA – DCI Research Centre |
| 出版地 | Sri Lanka [斯里蘭卡] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Ethics; Early Buddhism; Ethical Values; Mind; Moral Judgment |
| 摘要 | Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending judgements from an ethical point of view on the rightness or wrongness of the conduct of a person. The main purpose of ethical philosophy is to provide the criteria or standards to determine the value and disvalue of human behavior. For this purpose, different religions and different sociophilosophical thinkers have distinctively presented their opinions to assess the nature and the function of good and bad. Among those opinions, the Buddhist philosophical standpoint on ethical judgements is adequate and satisfactory enough to apply to the task mentioned above. In Early Buddhist Canonical scriptures, there are some notable references which illustrate the standard methods that can be used for the evaluation of ethical questions. Most importantly the Kālāma-sutta widely exemplifies diverse standards of moral advice which existed contemporary with the Buddha. In this sutta, while the Buddha is rejecting ten grounds of moral decisions which are considered to be unsatisfactory, it also points to the possibility of independent enquiry into ethical judgement. In another notable explanation found in the Ambalaṭṭhikārāhulovāda-sutta and the Bāhitika-sutta ethical criteria for making ethical decisions between praiseworthy (anavajja) and blameworthy conduct (sāvajja) have been elaborated. Evidently, the said references bring sophistication not only to issue of the appropriate ethical criteria for determining the ethical status of human actions, but also the psychological foundations of ethics. The criteria used in Early Buddhist scriptures for the ethical evaluation of human conduct indicating significant ethical distinctions will be fully discussed in this article. |
| 目次 | Abstract 2 Buddhist Methods of Arriving at Valid Ethical Judgments 3 Other Prominent Buddhist Ethical Teachings 8 Conclusion 13 Endnotes 13 Abbreviations 15 References 15 |
| ISSN | 27736814 (P); 20128878 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 109 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.08.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.08.15 |
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