Ethics in Early Buddhism

Ethics in Early Buddhism
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 8120832809
ISBN-13 : 9788120832800
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Book Synopsis Ethics in Early Buddhism by : David J. Kalupahana

Download or read book Ethics in Early Buddhism written by David J. Kalupahana and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a permanent and eternal state to be contrasted with the impermanent world of sensory experience and bondage. Ethics in Early Buddhism is David J. Kalupahana's balanced and brilliantly concise attempt to place the early Buddhist descriptions of the world of experience, the state of freedom, and the moral principle leading to such freedom within the framework of impermanence.


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