Budismo y filosofía moral occidental

Abstract

As a strategy to better understand Buddhist ethics, this work seeks to answer the question: with which family of western moral theories could we relate this theory? Against the interpretations that characterize it as deontological, consequentialist, or more recent interpretations that consider it as a form of ethics of care, I will argue in favor of interpreting the Buddhist ethics as closer to the virtue ethics. My main argument in favor of this proposal is that both, Buddhist ethics and Virtue ethics, have to do fundamentally with the notion of self-cultivation or self-care.

Keywords:

budismo

nirvana

ética de la virtud

eudaimonía

cultivo de sí

Buddhism

nirvana

virtue ethics

eudaimonia

self-cultivation

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