{"id":3738,"date":"2014-03-11T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:32:31","slug":"act-and-result-in-nikayan-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/03\/11\/act-and-result-in-nikayan-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Act and Result in <i>Nik\u0101yan<\/i> Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 21, 2014<\/h6>\n<h3>Act and Result in <em>Nik\u0101yan<\/em> Ethics<\/h3>\n<p>Stephen Evans<\/p>\n<p>Scholars continue to debate the ethical priority of act versus result in Buddhist ethics. The present essay looks at the issue as an approach to exploring the connection between act and karmic yield: Why there should be such a connection at all? The priority question was not asked in the <em>Nik\u0101yas<\/em> (or commentaries) and it seems to have been the same thing to say that an act was good and that it had happy karmic yield, suggesting a kind of identity between the two. Given the necessity and specificity of the connection\u2014the yield must accrue and must accrue for this person\u2014and the analogical resemblance between act and karmic yield, a causal explanation seems unsatisfactory. Suspending such assumptions, the connection appears simply as an indissoluble unity. It is hypothesized here that the unity is grounded in a primordial cosmic order, which I call the \u201csacral dimension,\u201d conformity to which is by definition right and of necessity beneficial, violation of which is by definition wrong and of necessity harmful. Evidence for belief in such an order is found in the <em>Nik\u0101yas<\/em> and supporting similarities noted in the <em>Upani\u1e63ads<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2014\/01\/Evans-Nikaayan-Ethics-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 Act and Result in Nik\u0101yan Ethics Stephen Evans Scholars continue to debate the ethical priority of act versus result in Buddhist ethics. The present essay looks at the issue as an approach to exploring the connection between act and karmic yield: Why there should be such a connection at all? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/03\/11\/act-and-result-in-nikayan-ethics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Act and Result in <i>Nik\u0101yan<\/i> Ethics<\/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":[71956],"tags":[71970,71969,71965,2724,71966,2592,71968,71971,71967,2410],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-21-2014","tag-deontological","tag-deontology","tag-good","tag-karma","tag-nikayas","tag-theravada","tag-upanisads","tag-utilitarian","tag-vedas","tag-virtue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-Yi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","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=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}