Kant and Buddhist Ethics, INDEX

Back on track. I think a fair amount of the meat of my Ph.D. is already floating around, in rough form, on my various blogs. Time now to gather it!

Aug 3, 2005: Kantian and Buddhist Ethics, thinking out loud: An outline (for my MA):

1. Why Kant – Deontology? Beware the pitfalls of comparative philosophy/ethics.
2. Keown’s understanding of Buddhist Ethics (Aristotelian)
3. Kant vs Aristotle
4. Kant’s Ethics
1. Feelings/Respect — Freedom/Autonomy — Duty
2. Politics/Self-Development — Result: Kingdom of Ends
5. Buddhism as Kantian
1. Buddhism and Reason
2. Buddhism and Freedom/Autonomy…

Sept 25, 2005: Kant/Buddhism on the Good Life: review of current Buddhological attitudes (Buddhism is Aristotelian) and an attempt to show the non-teleological nature of Buddhist soteriology. Likewise for Kant, a clear deontologist with we’ll say pragmatic overatures toward a virtue-ethics.

For both Kant and Buddhism, their is a process given/prescribed to take the individual away from egotistical life: the ever pressing desires and inclinations, and toward altruistic morality.

Kant’s three steps – think for yourself, listen, and be consistent. And Buddhism’s Kalama Sutta. Knowing for oneself – the emphasis on just giving, living “fully in and through the dharma.”

Jan 31, 2008: In Search of Buddhist Ethics: Working with Howard on Kant, away from his empty formulas. Buddhism too has its seemingly empty concepts such as non-self (anattā) and dhamma, but in practice these are tied to real moral practices and cultivations (as they are in Kant).

April 15, 2008: More Karma: … need sleep… will come back…