Is unique in its coverage of multiple traditions in the history of philosophy

Addresses the relationship between personal identity and the scope of moral obligation

Is the first book to compare Buddhist philosophical ideas with both ancient and modern Western philosophers

Deals with Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu and Santideva from the combined perspective of analytic ethics and scholarship in the history of philosophy

Brings together many of the most distinguished practitioners of Buddhist philosophy

Is unique in its coverage of multiple traditions in the history of philosophy Addresses the relationship between personal identity and the scope of moral obligation Is the first book to compare Buddhist philosophical ideas with both ancient and modern Western philosophers Deals with Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu and Santideva from the combined perspective of analytic ethics and scholarship in the history of philosophy Brings together many of the most distinguished practitioners of Buddhist philosophy

Autorentext
Associate Professor and former Chair of Philosophy Dept. (Carleton U.) B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2005) Founding executive member of Ethics and Public Affairs doctoral program (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Research interests: Ethical theory, Comparative Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Personal Identity, Early Modern Metaphysics Author of Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics (Philosophy East & West 2013); Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West (Comparative Philosophy 2013)

Inhalt

Part 1. Parallel Debates in Ancient Greek and Ancient Indian Philosophy.- 1. Self and Ethics in Plato and Indian Traditions (Michael Griffin).- 2. Stoicism and Buddhism (Emily McRae).- 3. Classical Scepticism and Nagarjuna (Ethan Mills).- Part 2. Early Modern Philosophical Ethics in Europe: Doubts about Selfhood, Innocence about Atman.- 4. Spinoza and Spinozism: Shadows of Buddhism in Early Modern Philosophy and in Late German Idealism (Gordon Davis).- 5. Hume as a Modern Madhyamika (Jay Garfield).- 6. Kant and Buddhist Ethics (Emer O'Hagan).- Part 3. Modern and Contemporary Philosophers in Dialogue with Buddhist Philosophical Traditions.- 7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (Douglas Berger).- 8. Heidegger and Buddhism (Sonia Sikka).- 9. William James and Bertrand Russell (Nalini Ramlakhan).- 10. Derek Parfit and Santideva on Altruism (Stephen Harris).- 11. Charles Taylor and Tensions within the Buddhist Tradition (Ashwani Peetush).- 12. Deep Ecology and Buddhist Ethics (Pragati Sahni).p>