Ego-Less Agency: Dharma-Responsiveness Without Kantian Autonomy

My critical focus in this article is on Rick Repetti's compatibilist conception of free will, and his apparent commitment to a Kantian conception of autonomy, which I argue is in direct conflict with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. As an alternative, I defend a conception of ego-less agency t...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Cummiskey, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Zygon
Review of:Buddhism, meditation, and free will (Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, 2018) (Cummiskey, David)
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BL Buddhism
NCB Personal ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Free Will
B Book review
B Buddhism
B Agency
B Kantian
B Pudgalavadin
B No-self
B Moral Responsibility
B Autonomy
B Christine Korsgaard
B reason-responsiveness
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)
Description
Summary:My critical focus in this article is on Rick Repetti's compatibilist conception of free will, and his apparent commitment to a Kantian conception of autonomy, which I argue is in direct conflict with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. As an alternative, I defend a conception of ego-less agency that I believe better coheres with core Buddhist teachings. In the course of the argument, I discuss the competing conceptions of free agency and autonomy defended by Harry Frankfurt, John Martin Fischer, Christine Korsgaard, and David Velleman.
ISSN:1467-9744
Reference:Kommentar in "A Defense of Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will (2020)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12601