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 …

This paper examines the question of human wrongdoing, or 'human evil,'from the
perspective of Buddhist meta-ethics, emphasising the relation between wrong view and …

This chapter investigates the central role that intention (cetanā) plays in Buddhist ethics, the
unique perspective into the nature of the self and agency from a Theravāda Buddhist stance …

Is there a “common element” in Buddhist ethical thought from which one might rationally
reconstruct a Buddhist normative ethical theory? Each Buddhist philosophical tradition and …

If there is any domain in which Buddhism can contribute significantly to cognitive science—
one in which Buddhist insight is arguably well in advance of contemporary theory in the …

Buddhist philosophical psychology is especially interesting to Westerners because
Buddhists deny that there are any such things as persons or selves while offering advice …

This dissertation comprises two main sections. The first section, comprising Chapters 2 and
3, addresses the methodological problems with seeking to understand Buddhist ethics …

There are two temptations to be resisted when approaching Buddhist moral theory. The first
is to assimilate Buddhist ethics to some system of Western ethics, usually either some form …

There are three main parts in this chapter. The first is to examine what doctrines, or theories,
in Buddhism that make the moral principles described in previous two chapters work. The …

This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist
ethical thought for interested students and scholars, yet also offers chapters taking up more …