Philosophy's Big Questions : : Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches / / ed. by Steven M. Emmanuel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Dan,; Carpenter, Amber D.,; Duckworth, Douglas S.,; Duckworth, Douglas,; Emmanuel, Steven M.,; Hershock, Peter D.,; Hershock, Peter,; Kalmanson, Leah,; Laumakis, Stephen J.,; Repetti, Rick,; Westerhoff, Jan,
• HerausgeberIn: Emmanuel, Steven M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions—about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Editor’s Introduction
• 1. How Should We Live? Happiness, Human Flourishing, and the Good Human Life
• 2. What Is Knowledge? Knowledge in the Context of Buddhist Thought
• 3. Does Reality Have a Ground? Madhyamaka and Nonfoundationalism
• 4. Can Consciousness Be Explained? Buddhist Idealism and the “Hard Problem” in Philosophy of Mind
• 5. Is Anything We Do Ever Really Up to Us? Western and Buddhist Philosophical Perspectives on Free Will
• 6. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? “And None of Us Deserving the Cruelty or the Grace”: Buddhism and the Problem of Evil
• 7. How Much Is Enough? Greed, Prosperity, and the Economic Problem of Happiness: A Comparative Perspective
• 8. What Do We Owe Future Generations? Compassion and Future Generations: A Buddhist Contribution to an Ethics of Global Interdependence
• Concluding Remarks
• For Further Reading and Study
• Contributors
• Index