Martin Kovan
\nUniversity of Queensland<\/p>\n
This essay considers a paradigmatic example in Buddhist ethics of the injunction (in the five precepts and five heinous crimes) against killing. It also considers Western ethical concerns in the post-phenomenological thinking of Derrida and Levinas, particularly the latter\u2019s \u201cethics of responsibility.\u201d It goes on to analyze in-depth an episode drawn from Alan Clements\u2019s experience in 1990 as a Buddhist non-violent, non-combatant in war-torn Burma. It explores Clements\u2019s ethical predicament as he faced an imminent need to act, perhaps even kill and thereby repudiate his Buddhist inculcation. It finds a wealth of common (yet divergent) ground in Levinasian and Mah\u0101y\u0101na ethics, a site pregnant for Buddhist ethical self-interrogation.<\/p>\n
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