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A Buddhist Theory of KillingAffect and Cognition: Unwholesome Consciousness, Hatred, Wrong View, and Delusion

A Buddhist Theory of Killing: Affect and Cognition: Unwholesome Consciousness, Hatred, Wrong... [This chapter engages the relations between affective and cognitive causal factors in killing evident in Abhidhamma and Abhidharma commentarial Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda literature. In particular it seeks to establish the degree to which the latter factors can be understood as psychologically determinative in intentional killing, alongside the dominant affective cause in aversion (dosa). Affect is seen to be grounded in the intentional nature of consciousness, which in the lethal case perceives and conceives its object in globally unwholesome (akusala) modes of awareness, constitutively inflected with delusion (moha), thus producing habitually distortive affective-cognitive constructions of others vis-à-vis the affected subject. Answering to the question concerning cognitive causal factors, the epistemic category of wrong view (micchā diṭṭhi), especially in the Abhidharma context, similarly functions as a precedent if not proximal causal factor. Deliberation and decision, manifest in reflective thought, entails rational cognition, and aversion is always associated with the hatred-rooted consciousness which itself depends on the specifically cognitive impetus for the akusala-cetanā intentionally giving rise to lethal acts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Buddhist Theory of KillingAffect and Cognition: Unwholesome Consciousness, Hatred, Wrong View, and Delusion

Kovan, Martin
Springer Journals — Jun 21, 2022
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Springer Nature Singapore
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
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978-981-19-2440-8
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85 –105
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10.1007/978-981-19-2441-5_6
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Abstract

[This chapter engages the relations between affective and cognitive causal factors in killing evident in Abhidhamma and Abhidharma commentarial Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda literature. In particular it seeks to establish the degree to which the latter factors can be understood as psychologically determinative in intentional killing, alongside the dominant affective cause in aversion (dosa). Affect is seen to be grounded in the intentional nature of consciousness, which in the lethal case perceives and conceives its object in globally unwholesome (akusala) modes of awareness, constitutively inflected with delusion (moha), thus producing habitually distortive affective-cognitive constructions of others vis-à-vis the affected subject. Answering to the question concerning cognitive causal factors, the epistemic category of wrong view (micchā diṭṭhi), especially in the Abhidharma context, similarly functions as a precedent if not proximal causal factor. Deliberation and decision, manifest in reflective thought, entails rational cognition, and aversion is always associated with the hatred-rooted consciousness which itself depends on the specifically cognitive impetus for the akusala-cetanā intentionally giving rise to lethal acts.]

Published: Jun 21, 2022

Keywords: Abhidhamma psychology; Buddhist theory of consciousness; Intentionality and affect; Phenomenology of lethal acts; Habitual affect and cognition; Homicide and genocide

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