The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology

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This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in thought and practice are often considered be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On one hand, there is an aspiration nirvana philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment views.” other traditions recommend actions based compassion loving kindness, cultivation contentment, introspective awareness, peace mind. It argued these arenas not conflict, but linked through psychology, wherein proven limitations concepts quite explicitly leveraged show beings hampered by such limits ought think act epistemic humility. The result nihilism, method improving our perspectives on ourselves society—a may serve model humanistic research.

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Religious Ethics

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1467-9795', '0384-9694']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12433