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A Buddhist Theory of KillingBuddhist Personhood and a Doxastic Rationale for Killing

A Buddhist Theory of Killing: Buddhist Personhood and a Doxastic Rationale for Killing [This chapter introduces in detail the Buddhist metaphysics of the person, in both soteriological and ontological registers. The implicit value of life is analysed with regard to the telos of Buddhist praxis, before describing the synchronic Buddhist conception of the person as an aggregated psychophysical entity (nāmarūpa) lacking substantive self. The same model of the person is then conceived diachronically in terms of the ontogenetic theory of the twelve links of dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda), theorising possible ontological bases for the aetiology of killing in human beings, with regard to volitional properties. The dependency relations between physical and mental properties of the aggregates of the person are then analysed prior to a generic account of what might doxastically justify killing, in the most general terms, for typical lethal agents. The analysis then turns to a fuller account of the person not merely as a universally reified metaphysical entity, but as a being with predicated properties of personhood and self which conceives other such propertied beings as a basis for intentional acts. This account further considers the predication of psychophysical properties as a cognitive-phenomenological basis for lethal acts, before narrowing this argument to the primal basis of volition in its role both in the commission, but also as the object of, such acts, to be continued in depth in Chap. 8, in Part II.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Buddhist Theory of KillingBuddhist Personhood and a Doxastic Rationale for Killing

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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107 –132
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10.1007/978-981-19-2441-5_7
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[This chapter introduces in detail the Buddhist metaphysics of the person, in both soteriological and ontological registers. The implicit value of life is analysed with regard to the telos of Buddhist praxis, before describing the synchronic Buddhist conception of the person as an aggregated psychophysical entity (nāmarūpa) lacking substantive self. The same model of the person is then conceived diachronically in terms of the ontogenetic theory of the twelve links of dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda), theorising possible ontological bases for the aetiology of killing in human beings, with regard to volitional properties. The dependency relations between physical and mental properties of the aggregates of the person are then analysed prior to a generic account of what might doxastically justify killing, in the most general terms, for typical lethal agents. The analysis then turns to a fuller account of the person not merely as a universally reified metaphysical entity, but as a being with predicated properties of personhood and self which conceives other such propertied beings as a basis for intentional acts. This account further considers the predication of psychophysical properties as a cognitive-phenomenological basis for lethal acts, before narrowing this argument to the primal basis of volition in its role both in the commission, but also as the object of, such acts, to be continued in depth in Chap. 8, in Part II.]

Published: Jun 21, 2022

Keywords: Buddhist personhood and soteriology; Metaphysics of the person; Dependent origination and the person; Lethality and doxastic reasoning; Property predication; Cognitive phenomenology; Reification of self; Volition and agency

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