{"id":4995,"date":"2021-12-27T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:21:19","slug":"aquinas-and-mipham-on-military-and-punitive-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2021\/12\/27\/aquinas-and-mipham-on-military-and-punitive-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquinas and Mipham on Military and Punitive Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 28, 2021<\/h6>\n<h3>Aquinas and Mipham on Military and Punitive Violence: A Tribute to Michael Jerryson<\/h3>\n<p>Damien Keown<br \/>\nGoldsmiths, University of London (<em>Emeritus<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The claim that Buddhism is exclusively a \u201creligion of peace\u201d has been shown to be untenable. Buddhism now faces the challenge of explaining how the pacifist spirit of its teachings can be reconciled with its well-documented recourse to military and punitive violence. Buddhism is not the only religion to face this challenge, and we first consider the Christian stance on violence as formulated by St. Thomas Aquinas before turning to the views of the Tibetan polymath Jamg\u00f6n Mipham. We consider to what extent the views of the two thinkers are compatible and conclude with a suggestion as to how what Michael Jerryson calls \u201cthe quandary of Buddhism and violence\u201d might be resolved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2021\/12\/Keown_21_FD.pdf\"> Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 28, 2021 Aquinas and Mipham on Military and Punitive Violence: A Tribute to Michael Jerryson Damien Keown Goldsmiths, University of London (Emeritus) The claim that Buddhism is exclusively a \u201creligion of peace\u201d has been shown to be untenable. Buddhism now faces the challenge of explaining how the pacifist spirit of its teachings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2021\/12\/27\/aquinas-and-mipham-on-military-and-punitive-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aquinas and Mipham on Military and Punitive Violence<\/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":[333236],"tags":[2647,125204,2693,76365,2702,2663,2668,2646,71977,2592,2614,2683,881,1229,2596],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-28-2021-2","tag-ahimsa","tag-capital-punishment","tag-compassion","tag-crime","tag-engaged-buddhism","tag-indian-buddhism","tag-japanese-buddhism","tag-non-violence","tag-punishment","tag-theravada","tag-tibet","tag-tibetan-buddhism","tag-war","tag-western","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1iz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}