Engaged Buddhist Practice and Ecological Ethics
Engaged Buddhist approaches to an ecological ethics can be read as a case study of the reinvention of Buddhism within the matrix of Western cultures. Three challenges have been raised to these efforts: first, engaged Buddhists have projected back onto the early Buddhist tradition modern formulations...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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| Dans: |
Worldviews
Année: 2016, Volume: 20, Numéro: 2, Pages: 189-210 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Crise environnementale
/ Modernité
/ Philosophie bouddhiste
/ Éthique environnementale
/ Efficacité
/ Critique
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AD Sociologie des religions BL Bouddhisme NAB Théologie fondamentale NCG Éthique de la création; Éthique environnementale TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Buddhist ethics
ecological ethics
virtue ethics
climate change
bioregional reinhabitation
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | Engaged Buddhist approaches to an ecological ethics can be read as a case study of the reinvention of Buddhism within the matrix of Western cultures. Three challenges have been raised to these efforts: first, engaged Buddhists have projected back onto the early Buddhist tradition modern formulations of ancient teachings in particular that of dependent co-arising (pratitya samutpada); second, Buddhists associated with the deep ecology movement have offered a form of holism that is “ethically vacuous;” third, while Buddhist virtue ethics are immune to some of these criticisms, they fail in face of the urgency of the challenge presented by climate change and do not offer a way of addressing entrenched power that impedes action. The article takes up each of these challenges and argues that these Buddhist “Eco-constructivists” perform a midrash on the Buddhist tradition that is geared towards praxis; it offers forms of practice that are hardly ethically vacuous. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contient: | In: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02002004 |