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Abhidharma Buddhism
Abhidharma Texts
Author_Amber Carpenter
Buddhist Ethics
Buddhist metaphysics
Buddhist moral psychology research
Buddhist View
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Causal Continuity
comparative philosophy
Conventional Reality
dependent
Dependent Origination
diff
Divine Abidings
ect
eff
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erence
erings
Extra-mental Reality
Future Mental States
Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Indian epistemology
karmic causation
Madhyamaka View
Mental Stream
Mind Independent Objects
Mind Independent Reality
moral psychology
Nietzschean Objection
no-self theory
noble
Noble Truths
origination
suff
Teleological Ethics
Thirty Verses
truths
TSN.
Twenty Verses
Ultimate Determinable
Ultimate Reality
Vasubandhu's Reply
Vasubandhu’s Reply
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781844652976
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.
Amber Carpenter is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
