The Importance of Vow

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-166
Author(s):  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Ethical Status ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Binding Power ◽  
Metaphysical Status

This chapter addresses the role of vows in Buddhist ethics. Vows generate new moral perspectives, as well as new agent-relative moral considerations. Among the vows addressed are the lay vows, monastic vows, bodhisattva vows, and tantric vows. The chapter discusses the diverse Buddhist interpretations of the metaphysical status of vows, and the ways that they transform one’s moral landscape, changing the ethical status of actions. Also addressed here are the binding power of vows, including the roles of both initial intention and admitted exceptions, and the effects of transgressions, including atonement and confession, and the phenomenon of returning vows.

scholarly journals The Role Of Buddhist Ethics And Communication In The Contemporary World Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Phramaha Pornchai Sripakdee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
World Crisis

<p><em>In reality, man cannot live without communication; at least, he communicates something with himself, thoughts, for instance. In order to successfully communicate something as such, ethics concerning any kinds of communication should be taken into a critical examination; what kind of speech one should speak out, what kind of speech one should not speak out. In this article, an attempt was purposely made to discuss the role of Buddhist ethics and communication in the contemporary world crisis. In this, it is argued by Buddhist ethics that the communication should be subject to ethics because of man’s ideal life, without it, such communication will pose the danger to the chance in obtaining the goal, ideal life. </em></p>

Descartes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Eternal Truths ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Metaphysical Status

This chapter explains the background of Marion’s work on Descartes and his interest in this philosopher. It outlines and summarizes the main arguments of all of his writings on Descartes, including the role of the important Cartesian notion of the creation of the eternal truths. Marion explains in what way Descartes’ system can be considered metaphysical and the relevance of onto-theo-logy for evaluating its metaphysical status. He also gives a brief preview of his most recent book on Descartes and provides an account of the history of the Center for Cartesian Studies in Paris. Marion shows throughout the importance of Descartes’ philosophical work and sets him in the context of other thinkers, such as Suarez, Vasquez, and Pascal.

Mindfulness and Ethics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Engagement

This essay explores the role of the two aspects of mindfulness (smṛti and samprajanya) in ethical discipline. It argues that mindfulness understood as the union of these two attitudes is essential to the kind of perception and attention necessary for spontaneous moral engagement with the world. The essay first discusses why mindfulness is so important in Buddhist ethics. It then turns to the importance of spontaneity, first in the Aristotelian and then in the Zen tradition. It closes by showing why spontaneity can be understood as desirable only if infused by the kind of mindfulness philosophers such as Śāntideva recommend, and why mindfulness can be morally efficacious only if it suffuses our perception and action so as to render them spontaneous.

Analysis The Role of Law in Protecting Intellectual Rights and Their Relationship to Social Welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Wandi Subroto
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Binding Power

This study aims to analyze the role of law in protecting intellectual rights and their relationship to social welfare. This research belongs to the research that uses the juridical-normative method. The legal sources used in this study are secondary legal sources, which based on their legally binding power, consist of primary legal materials in the form of theories, norms, rules, and opinions of legal experts related to the intellectual property protection legal system associated with community welfare issues, and the role of strategy that the state can play besides the use of secondary and tertiary legal materials. Based on the study of legal sources, it can be seen that regarding the definition, recognition, and protection of intellectual property rights in Indonesia, it is regulated in the law and further regulated in Government Regulations. Intellectual property rights recognized and protected in Indonesia are Copyright and Industrial Property Rights, which consist of trademarks, patents, trade secrets, integrated circuit layout designs, and protection of plant varieties. This is very important to be maintained by the state, and the goal is to improve social welfare as mandated in the constitution.

Sympathy for the Devil: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance, the Role of Fiction in Moral Thought, and the Limits of the Imagination

Philosophy ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Edmund Dain
Keyword(s):  
Moral Thought ◽  
Imaginative Resistance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
The Devil

Abstract What are the limits of the imagination in morality? What role does fiction play in moral thought? My starting point in addressing these questions is Tamar Szabo Gendler's ‘puzzle of imaginative resistance’, the problem of explaining the special difficulties we seem to encounter in imagining to be right what we take to be morally wrong (or vice versa) in fiction, and Gendler's claim that those difficulties are due to our unwillingness to imagine these things, rather than our inability to imagine what is logically or conceptually impossible. Using a wide range of examples, I argue that there is no puzzle of imaginative resistance and that to think that there is such a puzzle is to miss almost entirely the role fiction plays in moral thought. That, however, does not mean that there are no limits to what we can imagine in morality. In fact, I argue, the imagination is limited in morality, as elsewhere, by what is logically or conceptually possible. Together, those claims suggest that fiction and the imagination play a fundamental role in shaping our conception of the moral landscape. The paper concludes by drawing some of the consequences of these views for the nature of moral thought.

Reciprocity and the Warrior Ethos

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Neil C. Renic
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Status ◽  
Physical Risk ◽  
Warrior Ethos ◽  
Legitimate Violence ◽  
Ancient Warfare

This chapter locates the role of reciprocal risk within the warrior ethos. It first outlines that exposure to personal, physical risk has long been regarded as a key element in the ethos-based conception of legitimate violence. It demonstrates this through analysis of ancient warfare, both Greek and Roman, as well as the medieval code of chivalry. As will be further shown, however, the warrior ethos is an evolving framework; one that gives increasing consideration to factors such as restraint and professionalism in determinations of ethical status. This will be confirmed through analysis of premodern, modern, and ‘post-heroic’ warfare. As this chapter will illustrate, the adaptive quality of the warrior ethos is a key explanatory factor in the historical resolution of asymmetry-challenges.

Narrative in Buddhist Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Moral Insight ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the central role of narratives in the articulation of Buddhist ethics. Discussion includes casuistic narratives, and the way that they aid in moral decision making, including providing rationales and examples, both clear cut and not, illuminating the impact of interconnected human relationships and circumstances, and creating greater psychological impact through analysis of specific cases. Also discussed are the way that stories yield moral insight through their focus on developing deeper ways of seeing. Several narratives are addressed in detail, including that of Kisagotami, Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana, and a collection of stories from the Mahāvagga and the Avadānaśataka.

scholarly journals Ambedkar and the Buddha's Sangha: A Ground for Buddhist Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Timothy Loftus
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Buddhist Modernism ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Lay Buddhists

The saṅgha is one of the three jewels of the Buddhist tradition. While undervalued in many other Anglophone iterations of Buddhist modernism, Ambedkar’s approach to Buddhism placed a reconceptualized saṅgha at the center. Where traditional accounts often limit the boundaries of saṅgha to ordained monks and nuns, Ambedkar sought to include all lay Buddhists within its frame. He suggests that the role of the saṅgha is not, as many traditional accounts might suggest, the personal liberation of the monks and nuns who join it, but instead social service directed toward the community at large. Ambedkar’s commitment to the development of a religion that champions egalitarianism naturally lead to his inclusion of women as full participants in his image of the saṅgha, despite the historically patriarchal limits placed on them in many traditional Buddhist settings. This wide-tent approach to the saṅgha, along with its emphasis on service and egalitarian principles, are defining features of Ambedkar’s unique approach the Buddhist tradition.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management
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