What do we gain from reading Śāntideva as a moral phenomenologist? For one thing, we
avoid the procrustean strategy of locating him in the standard Western doxography of ethical …

Buddhist ethics situates moral significance within the mental lives of living beings, and
foregrounds mental actions as the key site for moral assessment. Mental actions may be …

The Greco-Roman philosophical tradition had a genre of literature called “protreptic.”
Protrepsis means “turning toward,” and while the genre might broadly be taken as a call to …

It is a common view in modern scholarship on Buddhist ethics that attachment to the self
constitutes a hindrance to ethics, whereas rejecting this type of attachment is a necessary …

In her fascinating recent book, Shannon Vallor presents a set of dispositions and associated
moral skills that, she argues, are fundamental for effectively responding to the moral …

This paper addresses two specific and related questions the Buddhist neuroethics program
raises for our traditional understanding of Buddhist ethics: Does affective neuroscience …

В конце XX в. в англоязычных странах происходит формирование дисциплины
буддийских этических исследований (Buddhist ethics), в рамках которой сообщество …

Despite striking similarities, the connection between Madhyamaka Buddhism and Richard
Rorty's philosophy has been almost entirely ignored. This article aims to correct this …

This essay defends a new interpretation of Buddhist ethics: normative gradualism. According
to normative gradualism, what we have normative reason to do depends on our stage along …

There are obvious homologies between Hume's metaphysics and the commitments of
Madhyamaka Buddhism, to be found in his treatment of personal identity, the status of the …