Bodhisattva's Brain Buddhism Naturalized

Name: Bodhisattva's Brain Buddhism Naturalized
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ISBN: 9780262525206

ISBN-10: 0262525208

ISBN-13: 9780262525206

Edition: 2011

Authors: Owen Flanagan

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If we are material beings living in a material world -- and all the scientificevidence suggests that we are -- then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, inthis physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. ManyWesterners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism -- almost as akind of moral-mental hygiene. But, as Owen Flanagan points out in The Bodhisattva'sBrain, Buddhism is hardly naturalistic. In The Bodhisattva's Brain,Flanagan argues that it is possible to discover in Buddhism a rich, empirically responsiblephilosophy that could point us to one path of human flourishing. Some claim…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy. His books include Varieties of Moral Personality (1991), Consciousness Reconsidered (1992), The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (2007), and The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011).



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Buddhism Naturalized



An Essay in Comparative Neurophilosophy



The Bodhisattva's Brain



The Color of Happiness



Buddhist Epistemology and Science



Buddhism as a Natural Philosophy



Selfless Persons



Being No-Self and Being Nice



Virtue and Happiness


Postscript: Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Philosophy


Notes


References


Index