Philosophy East and West, October 1st, 2005
In recent years, a number of scholars have made a case for approaching Buddhist ethics from an Aristotelian virtue-based perspective. (1) Some seek more specifically to encourage a systematic investigation of the similarities and differences between the Aristotelian-Thomistic and Mahayana Buddhist conceptions of morality. (2) Much of this work has the merit of demonstrating what can be discovered by pursuing the investigation on its broader terms. At the same time, we might benefit by focusing our attention on two representative figures, one representing the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition an...
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