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- Title
Dependent Origination, Emptiness, and the Value of Nature.
- Authors
Cummiskey, David; Hamilton, Alex
- Abstract
This article explains the importance of the Buddhist doctrine of dependent origination to contemporary environmental ethics and also develops a Buddhist account of the relational, non-instrumental, and impersonal value of nature. The article's methodology is "comparative" or "fusion" philosophy. In particular, dependent origination and Nāgārjuna's doctrine of emptiness are developed in contrast to Aldo Leopold and J. Baird Callicott's conception of deep ecology, and the Buddhist conception of value is developed using Christine Korsgaard's Kantian analysis of the distinction between intrinsic/extrinsic value and means/ends value.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of nature; PRATITYASAMUTPADA; SUNYATA
- Publication
Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2017, Vol 24, p1
- ISSN
1076-9005
- Publication type
Article