Nicolas Bommarito
\nBrown University<\/p>\n
In his famous text the Bodhicary\u0101vat\u0101ra<\/em>, the 8th century Buddhist philosopher \u015a\u0101ntideva argues that anger towards people who harm us is never justified. The usual reading of this argument rests on drawing similarities between harms caused by persons and those caused by non-persons. After laying out my own interpretation of \u015a\u0101ntideva’s reasoning, I offer some objections to \u015a\u0101ntideva’s claim about the similarity between animate and inanimate causes of harm inspired by contemporary philosophical literature in the West. Following this, I argue that by reading \u015a\u0101ntideva’s argument as practical advice rather than as a philosophical claim about rational coherence, his argument can still have important insights even for those who reject his philosophical reasoning. <\/p>\n Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 18, 2011 Bile & Bodhisattvas: \u015a\u0101ntideva on Justified Anger Nicolas Bommarito Brown University In his famous text the Bodhicary\u0101vat\u0101ra, the 8th century Buddhist philosopher \u015a\u0101ntideva argues that anger towards people who harm us is never justified. The usual reading of this argument rests on drawing similarities between harms caused by persons and … Continue reading \u015a\u0101ntideva on Justified Anger<\/span>