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| العنوان: |
Self-Control without a Self. |
| المؤلفون: |
Chadha, Monima, Nichols, Shaun |
| المصدر: |
Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Dec2023, Vol. 101 Issue 4, p936-953, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SELF-control, SALVATION in Buddhism, WILL, BUDDHIST doctrines, BUDDHIST ethics |
| مستخلص: |
Self-control is essential to the Buddhist soteriological project, but it is not immediately clear how we can make sense of it in light of the doctrine of no-self. Exercising control over our actions, thoughts, volitions, and emotions seems to presuppose a conception of self and agency that is not available to the Buddhist. Thus, there seems to be a fundamental mismatch in the practical instructions for exercising control in the Buddhist texts and the doctrine of no-self. In this paper, we develop and defend a general account of self-control that coheres with Abhidarma Buddhism. We defend the Buddhist against recent arguments that self-control depends on an executive self; instead, for the Buddhist, the psychology of self-control must be 'horizontal' (for example, one desire winning out over another). However, the characterization of the psychological process isn't sufficient for a Buddhist theory of self-control. For the Buddhist account is substantive. According to Buddhism, a paradigmatic instance of self-control is an episode in which the desire that wins is a desire that conforms to Buddhist values; by contrast, an episode is not an instance of selfcontrol if the desire that wins is opposed to Buddhist values. We also argue that there are significant resources on which the Buddhist can draw for enhancing selfcontrol despite the denial of self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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