Moral Agency and the Paradox of Self-Interested Concern for the Future in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhāṣya

It is a common view in modern scholarship on Buddhist ethics that attachment to the self constitutes a hindrance to ethics, whereas rejecting this type of attachment is a necessary condition for acting morally. The present article argues that in Vasubandhu's theory of agency, as formulated in t...

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Main Author: Hanner, Oren (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2018]
In: Sophia
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 591-609
RelBib Classification:BL Buddhism
NBE Anthropology
TB Antiquity
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Vasubandhu
B Agency
B Buddhism
B Abhidharmakosabhāṣya
B Self
B Personal Identity
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)