Retributive karma and the problem of blaming the victim

A defining feature of retributive conceptions of karma is their regarding of suffering or misfortune as consequent upon sins committed in previous lives. Some critical non-believers in karma take offence at this view, considering it to involve unjustly blaming the victim. Defenders of the view demur...

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Main Author: Burley, Mikel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2013
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-165
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Arvind Sharma
B Reincarnation
B Hinduism
B Ludwig Wittgenstein
B Blaming the victim
B Karma
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