{"id":1618,"date":"2010-05-10T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:22:33","slug":"compassion-and-equanimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/05\/10\/compassion-and-equanimity\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion and Equanimity"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISSN 1076-9005
\nVolume 14, 2007<\/h6>\n

Do the Compassionate Flourish? Overcoming Anguish and the Impulse towards Violence<\/h3>\n

Chris Frakes
\nUniversity of Colorado, Colorado Springs<\/p>\n

In this paper I argue that in order for compassion to be considered a virtue, Western philosophical accounts of compassion must be supplemented by Buddhist understandings. After examining two potential problems with compassion (that it may burden the compassionate agent with anguish such that s\/he cannot flourish and that feeling compassion may give rise to violence on behalf of the suffering), I consider a way out of both of these problems. My central claim is that the proper emotion which demonstrates the virtue of compassion is that of equanimity.<\/p>\n

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ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 14, 2007 Do the Compassionate Flourish? Overcoming Anguish and the Impulse towards Violence Chris Frakes University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In this paper I argue that in order for compassion to be considered a virtue, Western philosophical accounts of compassion must be supplemented by Buddhist understandings. After examining two potential problems with … Continue reading Compassion and Equanimity<\/span> →<\/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":[2388],"tags":[2693,2694],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-14-2007","tag-compassion","tag-equanimity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-q6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}