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Buddhist Ethics as a Path: A Defense of Normative Gradualism
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 72, Number 2, April 2022
- pp. 335-354
- 10.1353/pew.2022.0044
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Abstract:
This essay defends a new interpretation of Buddhist ethics: normative gradualism. According to normative gradualism, what we have normative reason to do depends on our stage along the Buddhist spiritual path. The essay shows how normative gradualism can justify distinctive features of Buddhist ethics and reconcile consequentialist and eudaimonistic interpretations of Buddhist moral thought.