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Buddhist Moral Responsibility: The Deterministic and Agentless Moral Responsibility of Buddhism

Ngan, Chun Hei Dylan; (2024) Buddhist Moral Responsibility: The Deterministic and Agentless Moral Responsibility of Buddhism. Masters thesis (M.Phil.Stud), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

Moral responsibility seems to intuitively require two fundamental elements, an agent that is responsible, and the freedom of will to be deemed responsible. Buddhists, however, adopt two theses: the non-self thesis and the claim that the natural world adheres to ‘dependent origination‘ (a seemingly strict system of cause and effect). Yet, they engage in moral responsibility that they hold to be a way out of suffering and the cycle of life and death through enlightenment. This thesis explores how Buddhist moral responsibility could accommodate what seems to be a blatant contradiction. I investigate whether Buddhist moral responsibility could be thought of in a different way.

Type: Thesis (Masters)
Qualification: M.Phil.Stud
Title: Buddhist Moral Responsibility: The Deterministic and Agentless Moral Responsibility of Buddhism
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195024
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