1st Edition

Indian Buddhist Philosophy

By Amber Carpenter Copyright 2014
336 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes... Read more
Chronology The Buddha Introduction 1. The Buddha's Suffering 2. Practice and Theory of No-Self 3. Klesas and Compassion 4. The Second Buddha's Greater Vehicle 5. Karmic Questions 6. Irresponsible Selves, Responsible Non-Selves 7. The Third Turning: Yogacara 8. The Long Sixth-Seventh Century: Epistemology as Ethics Epilogue Appendices Notes Further Reading

Biography

Amber Carpenter is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.