Buddhist Theory of Killing

Chapter 1. General Introduction.- Part 1. Foundations: The Nature of the Problem.- Chapter 2. Introduction: Text and tradition: an overview of sources.- Chapter 3. Canonical Buddhist discourse on killing.- Chapter 4. Interpreting the precept: evaluative criteria in the Theravada.- Chapter 5. Mahayana exceptionalism and the lethal act.- Chapter 6. Affect and cognition: unwholesome consciousness, hatred, wrong view, and delusion.- Chapter 7. Buddhist personhood and a doxastic rationale for killing.- Part 2. Constructions: The Nature of the Act.- Chapter 8. Critique of the conventional: the cessation of volition and Buddhist dualism of the person.- Chapter 9. Constituting the other: the conventional identity of persons.- Chapter 10. Persons as the objects of lethal justice.- Chapter 11. Killing and oblivion: the obviation of suffering.- Chapter 12. Representational persons: identity as the object of killing.- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Buddhist violence, self-defence, and the end of life.

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• Crime e criminologia
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Ethics of killing;Buddhist ethics;Capital punishment;Euthanasia;Religious lethal sacrifice;Terrorism;Lethal self-defence;Mahayana ethics;Theravada ethics;Metaphysics of the person;Moral phenomenology;Suicide and assisted suicide;Buddhism and human rights;Kantian ethics