2. The Subtitle of the Journal: The Question of Buddhist Environmentalism.
3. Author Affiliation: Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.
關鍵詞
eco-Buddhism; care ethics; Tibetan Buddhism; Buddhism; ethical veganism; environmentalism; moral phenomenology; religious ecology
摘要
This article thinks alongside the feminist ethic of care tradition to articulate a Tibetan Buddhist ethical approach to the more-than-human world. It begins by unpacking the characterization of Tibetan Buddhist ethics as a moral phenomenology before highlighting the major parallels between Buddhist moral phenomenology and the ethic of care tradition. Having made these parallels evident, this article then looks at how the ethic of care tradition has been applied to issues in animal ethics and environmental ethics to similarly think through how a Buddhist moral phenomenology might function in these more-than-human contexts. To further nuance this ecological application of Buddhist ethics, this article then takes up the question of veganism and argues that a Tibetan Buddhist care ethic would ideally adopt the positions of ethical veganism while also recognizing the socio-economic barriers to doing so in certain contexts. Ultimately, this article argues that when Buddhist moral phenomenology is applied to the more-than-human world, it presents as a Buddhist ecological ethic of care which recognizes the interconnected nature of duhkha, the necessity of approaching situations with care as one’s primary conative mode, and an emphasis on context, relationships, and positionality.
目次
Abstract 1 Keywords 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Buddhist Moral Phenomenology 2 3. Key Aspects of Buddhist Moral Phenomenology 3 4. Buddhist Moral Phenomenology and Feminist Care Ethics 5 5. Toward a Buddhist Ecological Care Ethic 9 6. Contextual Moral Veganism 12 7. Conclusions 16 Funding 16 Institutional Review Board Statement 16 Informed Consent Statement 16 Data Availability Statement 16 Conflicts of Interest 16 Notes 16 References 16
