{"id":1167,"date":"2010-04-27T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2010-12-21T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T00:28:19","slug":"groundwork-for-a-metaphysic-of-buddhist-morals-a-new-analysis-of-punna-and-kusala-in-light-of-sukka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/groundwork-for-a-metaphysic-of-buddhist-morals-a-new-analysis-of-punna-and-kusala-in-light-of-sukka\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 12, 2005<\/h6>\n<h3>Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals: A New Analysis of <em>pu\u00f1\u00f1a<\/em> and <em>kusala<\/em>, in Light of <em>sukka<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Martin Adam<br \/>\nUniversity of Victoria<\/p>\n<p>This paper offers a new basis for assessing the nature of Buddhist moral thinking. Although consistent with Damien Keown\u2019s view that Buddhist eth\u00adics may be considered a form of virtue ethics, the account outlined here does not aim to determine which western ethical theory Buddhism most closely matches. It suggests instead that Buddhist discourse presupposes different kinds of moral agency, distinguishable on the basis of the spiritual status of the agent. The moral language characteristically employed in different texts of the P\u0101li Canon differs accordingly. This accounts for some of the difficul\u00adties experienced by modern authors attempting to make comparisons with western traditions. Apparent inconsistencies among the texts can be resolved if one takes careful note of the spiritual status of the moral agents under dis\u00adcussion. The argument is based upon an analysis of a particular conceptual schema found in the P\u0101li Canon, namely, the tetrad of four logical categories of action based upon the pair of the bright and the dark (<em>sukka<\/em> and <em>ka\u1e47ha<\/em>). This schema is employed in order to clarify the relationship of two more commonly discussed terms, <em>pu\u00f1\u00f1a<\/em> and <em>kusala<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/adam-article.pdf\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals: A New Analysis of pu\u00f1\u00f1a and kusala, in Light of sukka Martin Adam University of Victoria This paper offers a new basis for assessing the nature of Buddhist moral thinking. Although consistent with Damien Keown\u2019s view that Buddhist eth\u00adics may be considered a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/groundwork-for-a-metaphysic-of-buddhist-morals-a-new-analysis-of-punna-and-kusala-in-light-of-sukka\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals<\/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":[2386],"tags":[2726,2814,2410],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-12-2005","tag-ethics-of-virtue","tag-kusala","tag-virtue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-iP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}