This essay considers some meta-ethical questions that emerge from a consideration of the phenomena of terrorism in the context of Buddhist metaphysics: what, in the Buddhist view, ultimately causes terrorism (and its subsidiary effects)? What resources do the Buddhist metaphysical claims of no-self, karma, emptiness and related concepts bring to a meta-ethical understanding of terrorism [...]
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‘Freedom/Ignorance’: Buddhist-ontological non-duality and metaethics in an age of terror
Posted in Buddhist philosophical, essay, non-dual philosophy on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Advaita Vedanta: a Philosophical Reconstruction (1969) by Eliot Deutsch – a critical review
Posted in essay, non-dual philosophy on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I Eliot Deutsch’s ‘reconstruction’ of Advaita Vedanta makes an inital claim of seeking “to approach Asian philosophy as material for creative thought” (Deutsch 1969, Preface) while recognising its status as “a religion as much as it is a technical philosophy…a way of spiritual realisation as well as a system of thought” (op.cit. p.4). Given this, [...]
