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- Title
Wholesome Mind Ethics: A Buddhist Paradigm.
- Authors
Gold, Jonathan C.
- Abstract
Basic Buddhist psychology thus blends ethics into its description of the mind. From any of the more prevalent moral perspectives, Buddhism's emphasis on the mind as the locus of moral value might seem to be in danger of myopic solipsism, and the crucial Buddhist idea that the moral quality of mental events is in some sense self-evident - that, to see the mind clearly is to know and motivate right action - is likely to appear to be Buddhism's own form of self-deluding fantasy. The answer is in your mind and in our analysis of what the art does in your mind, as a conditioning factor for your intentions. Buddhist ethics situates moral significance within the mental lives of living beings, and foregrounds mental actions as the key site for moral assessment.
- Subjects
SELF-deception; BUDDHISTS; ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL literature; CONSEQUENTIALISM (Ethics); ACCEPTANCE (Psychology); DECEPTION; BUDDHIST philosophy
- Publication
Journal of Value Inquiry, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 4, p607
- ISSN
0022-5363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10790-021-09845-7