Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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What would such a society be like?
And how would you get there from where we are?
Which are both c crucial questions.
So that's the kind of domain that Buddhist ethics takes us into, I think.
And now we start to engage with very recognisable themes in political philosophy.
Yeah, it's uh it can be seen like that.
Look, there's a um there are current debates amongst Western philosophers as to how to conceptualize Buddhist ethics.
Some people have argued that it's a form of utilitarianism.
Some people have argued that it's a form of virtue ethics.
In truth I think it's neither of those, although it has elements of all those things.
So it it doesn't fit comfortably into any of the Western categories.
My old friend Jake Garfield said to me once, Buddhist ethics is like plumbing.
Your plumbing goes wrong, you've got a problem.
Let me tell you how to fix it.
And I would add that if your neighbour has got a problem with their plumbing, you better fix it too. 'Cause otherwise it's quite likely to become yours.
And anyway, it's they're not having a happy time with their screwed up plumbing.
So I mean, um there are certain utilitarian elements in Buddhism, negative utilitarian as you want to put it, but that doesn't tell the whole story.
Very little.
Very little.
Generally speaking, Buddhism has been concerned more with private practice than public practice.
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