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The Forerunner of All Things
By Heim
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Description
In contrast to many studies that assimilate Buddhist moral thinking to Western theories of ethics, the book attends to distinctively Buddhist ways of systematizing and theorizing their own categories. Arguing that meaning is a product of the explanatory systems used to explore it, the book pays particular attention to genre and to the 5th-century commentator Buddhaghosa's guidance on how to read Buddhist texts. The book treats all branches of the Pali canon (the Tipitaka, that is, the Suttas, the Abhidhamma, and the Vinaya), as well as narrative sources (the Dhammapada and the Jataka commentaries). In this sense it offers a comprehensive treatment of intention in the canonical Theravada sources. But the book goes further than this by focusing explicitly on the body of commentarial thought represented by Buddhaghosa. His work is at the center of the book's investigations, both insofar as he offers interpretative strategies for reading canonical texts, but also as he advances particular understandings of agency and moral psychology. The book offers the first book-length study devoted to Buddhaghosa's thought on ethics
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
262
Release Date:
2013-10-10
Publication Date:
2006-01-05
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199331030
ISBN13:
9780199331031
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Weight:
561 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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