Demandingness, Well-Being and the Bodhisattva Path
This paper reconstructs an Indian Buddhist response to the overdemandingness objection, the claim that a moral theory asks too much of its adherents. In the first section, I explain the objection and argue that some Mahayana Buddhists, including Santideva, face it. In the second section, I survey so...
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Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-216 |
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B Well-being B Demandingness B Santideva B Bodhisattva B Buddhist ethics |
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