Forerunner of All Things

Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency

Autor: Maria Heim

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Oxford University Press Inc

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Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book e...

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Autor

Maria Heim

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2013

Stránek

272

EAN

9780199331031

ISBN

0199331030

Enbook ID

04532118

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnost

518

Rozměry

162 x 237 x 19

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Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of intention and motivation as they are investigated in Buddhist moral psychology. At stake is how we understand karma, the nature of moral experience, and the possibilities for freedom. In contrast to many studies that assimilate Buddhist moral thinking to Western theories of ethics, the book attends to distinctively Buddhist ways of systematizing and theorizing their own categories. Arguing that meaning is a product of the explanatory systems used to explore it, the book pays particular attention to genre and to the 5th-century commentator Buddhaghosa's guidance on how to read Buddhist texts. The book treats all branches of the Pali canon (the Tipitaka, that is, the Suttas, the Abhidhamma, and the Vinaya), as well as narrative sources (the Dhammapada and the Jataka commentaries). In this sense it offers a comprehensive treatment of intention in the canonical Theravada sources. But the book goes further than this by focusing explicitly on the body of commentarial thought represented by Buddhaghosa. His work is at the center of the book's investigations, both insofar as he offers interpretative strategies for reading canonical texts, but also as he advances particular understandings of agency and moral psychology. The book offers the first book-length study devoted to Buddhaghosa's thought on ethics

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