Forerunner of All Things Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency

Name: Forerunner of All Things Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency
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ISBN: 9780199331031

ISBN-10: 0199331030

ISBN-13: 9780199331031

Edition: 2013

Authors: Maria Heim

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Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of intention and motivation as they are investigated in Buddhist moral psychology. At stake is how we understand karma, the nature of moral experience, and the possibilities for freedom.In contrast to many studies that assimilate Buddhist moral thinking to Western theories of ethics, the book attends to distinctively Buddhist ways of systematizing and theorizing their own categories. Arguing that meaning is a product of the explanatory systems used to…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.33" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Constructing Experience: Intention in the Suttas



The Work of Intention: Mental Life in the Abhidhamma



Culpability and Disciplinary Culture in the Vinaya



Making Actions Intelligible: Intention and Mind in Stories


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index