Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics

Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-304

  Goodman, Charles ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Consequentialism; Free will; Hard determinist; Kant; Mahayana; Punishment; Theravada; Vajrayana; Welfarist

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EID: 84855801582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195375190.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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