{"id":1051,"date":"2010-04-26T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2010-05-21T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:58:22","slug":"the-value-of-human-differences-south-asian-buddhist-contributions-toward-an-embodied-virtue-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/26\/the-value-of-human-differences-south-asian-buddhist-contributions-toward-an-embodied-virtue-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Embodied Virtue Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076\u20149005<br \/>\nVolume 9 2002<\/h6>\n<h3>The Value of Human Differences: South Asian Buddhist Contributions Toward an Embodied Virtue Theory<\/h3>\n<p>Susanne Mrozik<br \/>\nWestern Michigan University<\/p>\n<p>What are virtues? Are these best described as cognitive and affective aspects of a person&#8217;s psyche, or can virtues also be described as features, postures, and movements of a person&#8217;s body? This paper explores the relationship between virtues and bodies in South Asian Buddhist traditions. The paper illumines several different ways in which Buddhist ethical discourse construes the nature of this relationship: (1) Bodies are the material effects of practicing virtues; (2) bodies are the material conditions for practicing virtues; (3) certain kinds of bodies can influence others to practice virtues; and (4) certain features, postures, and movements of bodies constitute in and of themselves virtues. The paper foregrounds the corporeal specificity of ethical agents in order to consider how South Asian Buddhist ethical discourse can contribute to the development of an embodied virtue theory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/mrozik.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076\u20149005 Volume 9 2002 The Value of Human Differences: South Asian Buddhist Contributions Toward an Embodied Virtue Theory Susanne Mrozik Western Michigan University What are virtues? Are these best described as cognitive and affective aspects of a person&#8217;s psyche, or can virtues also be described as features, postures, and movements of a person&#8217;s body? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/26\/the-value-of-human-differences-south-asian-buddhist-contributions-toward-an-embodied-virtue-theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Embodied Virtue Theory<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2409],"tags":[2726],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-09-2002","tag-ethics-of-virtue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-gX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}