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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: hermeneutical koan-what is the sound of one Buddhist theory of free will?; 1 Why the Buddha did not discuss 'the problem of free will and determinism'; 2 Why there should be a Buddhist theory of free will; 3 Uses of the illusion of agency: why some Buddhists should believe in free will; 4 Just another word for 'nothing left to lose': freedom, agency, and ethics for Mādhyamikas; 5 Negative dialectics in comparative philosophy: the case of Buddhist free will quietism |
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6 Free will and the sense of self7 What am I doing?; 8 Freedom from responsibility: agent-neutral consequentialism and the bodhisattva ideal; 9 Free will, liberation, and Buddhist philosophy; 10 Buddhism and free will: beyond the 'free will problem'; 11 Degrees of freedom: the Buddha's implied views on the (im)possibility of free will; 12 Buddhist paleocompatibilism; 13 Shifting coalitions, free will, and the responsibility of persons; 14 Psychological versus metaphysical agents: a Theravāda Buddhist view of free will and moral responsibility; 15 Emotions and choice: lessons from Tsongkhapa |
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16 Grasping snakes: reflections on free will, samādhi, and dharmas17 Agentless agency: the soft compatibilist argument from Buddhist meditation, mind-mastery, evitabilism, and mental freedom; Index |
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Print version record |
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Fate and fatalism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Fate and fatalism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317362098 |
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1317362098 |
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