Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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You know, it's a it's a a top down power structure.
So that's
That's not quite the same as the philosophy.
However, put set that aside, your question was given that the philosophy is, you know, figure it out for yourself, so it's anti-authoritarian in that sense, does that imply that the political structure should be anti-authoritarian?
And I don't think that follows.
Um once we move to the question of a political system.
The question really is what kind of political system is going to be most efficacious in the general aims of Buddhist ethics?
And it seems to be an empirical fact that, you know, power structures function in just the way I've described.
I don't think this is a priori.
Uh it just seems to be a lesson from history that power structures pretty soon start to function in the interests of those in power.
So that's why I think most Buddhists might well be against some kind of political hierarchy of power.
Well, I think that's a kind of separate point.
So you pick virtually anything.
Because any political policy is going to have consequences.
That's what they're aiming to do.
So you need to think through the consequence of political decisions, not only political decisions, but political structures.
And you've got to decide what is the best political decision or what the best sort of political structure is in terms of the
Consequences.
And that can be amazingly local.
I mean, it can be, you know, what's the best way of making the New York subway run better?
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