Resentment and reality: Buddhism on moral responsibility

American Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-372

  Goodman, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (19)

1. Galen Strawson, Freedom and Belief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 117-120
2. Mark Siderits, "Beyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism," American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 149-159, at p. 149
3. Paul J. Griffiths, "Notes Toward a Critique of Buddhist Karmic Theory," Religious Studies, vol. 18 (1982), pp. 277-291
4. Van Inwagen's An Essay on Free Will (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) is a classic defense of incompatibilism. The exposition of van Inwagen's views in the present essay is primarily based on this book
5. P. F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment," in Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays (Methuen, 1973), pp. 1-25
6. Vasubandhu, Treasury of Metaphysics, chap. 9
7. Majjhima Nikāya 71.7-9. In The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, trans. Bhikkhu Ñānamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 588
8. Nathan Katz, Buddhist Images of Human Perfection (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982), chap. 3
9. As, e.g., by Derk Pereboom in Living Without Free Will (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 63
10. Pereboom cites C. D. Broad, "Determinism, Indeterminism and Libertarianism," p. 169
11. In C. D. Broad, Ethics and the History of Philosophy (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952), pp. 195-217
12. Reprinted in Determinism, Free Will and Moral Responsibility, ed. Gerald Dworkin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentiss Hall, 1970), pp. 149-71
13. As in Treasury of Metaphysics, chap. 9
14. Dīgha Nikāya 2, 19-21. In The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya, trans. Maurice Walshe (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 1995), pp. 91-110
15. Majjhima Nikāya 21.6, 21.20. In Ñānamoli and Bodhi, trans., pp. 218, 223
16. Buddhaghosa, The Path of Purification IX. 14, 22. Bhikkhu Ñānamoli, trans
17. Questions of King Milinda, trans. Luis Gómez. Manuscript on file with the author
18. For instance, Peter Harvey: "The law of karma is seen as a natural law inherent in the nature of things, like a law of physics." An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 16
19. Damien Keown concurs, saying that "kamma [in Sanskrit, karma] is a value-free description." The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (London: Macmillan, 1992), p. 127