{"id":4156,"date":"2016-02-29T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2016-02-29T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:28:19","slug":"is-compassionate-killing-psychologically-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2016\/02\/29\/is-compassionate-killing-psychologically-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Compassionate Killing Psychologically Impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 23, 2016<\/h6>\n<h3>On Compassionate Killing and the <em>Abhidhamma<\/em>\u2019s \u201cPsychological Ethics\u201d<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Damien Keown<br \/>\nUniversity of London Goldsmiths<\/p>\n<p>Is compassionate killing really psychologically impossible, as the <em>Abhidhamma<\/em> claims? Previously I discussed a <em>Vinaya<\/em> case that seemed to show the contrary. Reviewing my conclusions in the light of commentarial literature, Rupert Gethin disagreed and restated the <em>Abhidhamma<\/em> position that killing can never be motivated by compassion. This paper supports my original conclusions and argues further that the <em>Vinaya<\/em> case reveals underlying problems with the <em>Abhidhamma<\/em>\u2019s \u201cpsychological ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2016\/02\/Keown-compassionate-killing.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 23, 2016 On Compassionate Killing and the Abhidhamma\u2019s \u201cPsychological Ethics\u201d Damien Keown University of London Goldsmiths Is compassionate killing really psychologically impossible, as the Abhidhamma claims? Previously I discussed a Vinaya case that seemed to show the contrary. Reviewing my conclusions in the light of commentarial literature, Rupert Gethin disagreed and restated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2016\/02\/29\/is-compassionate-killing-psychologically-impossible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Compassionate Killing Psychologically Impossible?<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99240],"tags":[2647,2720,2693,2727,2297,2592],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-23-2016","tag-ahimsa","tag-bodhisattva","tag-compassion","tag-killing","tag-psychology","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-152","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}