The Forerunner of All Things - Maria Heim

The Forerunner of All Things

Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-933104-8 (ISBN)
61,70 inkl. MwSt
Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention, agency, and moral psychology were interpreted in all branches of early Theravada thought, paying special attention to the thought of the 5th-century commentator Buddhaghosa.
Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of intention and motivation as they are investigated in Buddhist moral psychology. At stake is how we understand karma, the nature of moral experience, and the possibilities for freedom.

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

Associate Professor of Religion, Amherst College

Table of Contents ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Constructing Experience: Intention in the Suttas ; Chapter Two: The Work of Intention: Mental Life in the Abhidhamma ; Chapter Three: Culpability and Disciplinary Culture in the Vinaya ; Chapter Four: Making Actions Intelligible: Intention and Mind in Stories ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.11.2013
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 231 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-19-933104-9 / 0199331049
ISBN-13 978-0-19-933104-8 / 9780199331048
Zustand Neuware
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