Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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Now, you know, maybe artists some artists have been tortured people, Van Gogh, Beethoven perhaps.
But that's certainly not true of many great artists.
You know, Picasso, Bach lives very happily lives.
So it's not that to produce great art you have to go deaf, live in a garret, starve, etcetera, etcetera.
Yeah, look, you're absolutely right.
There's nothing as such in the Eightfold Path which undergirds compassion as a virtue, if you like.
I mean, certainly, you know, the middle triad of the eight is, you know, right speech, right action, right livelihood.
And generally speaking, those are compassionate.
You should act compassionately.
So that's there.
But why should you act compassionately?
I mean, no, these things are not not
sort of given because they're without rationale.
They will have a rationale.
What is the rationale?
Well, I think in early Buddhism a lot of the rationale is that if you act selflessly then you do a lot to destroy this act of attachment to your own ego, which is dukkha, um suffering generating.
There's certainly an element of that in it.
I mean, maybe that's not so much ethics as prudence, although sometimes it's very hard to draw the distinction between these two things.
But certainly there are later Buddhist ethicists who engage with this question directly and they want to say that it's not simply a matter of prudence.
So in later Buddhist philosophy, Indian Buddhist philosophy, compassion is the central virtue and it's an end in itself.
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