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‘Freedom/Ignorance’: Buddhist-Ontological Non-Duality and Metaethics in an Age of Terror

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This essay considers some meta-ethical questions that emerge from a consideration of the phenomena of terrorism in the context of Buddhist metaphysics: what, in the Buddhist view, ultimately causes terrorism (and its subsidiary effects)? What resources do the Buddhist metaphysical claims of no-self, karma, emptiness and related concepts bring to a meta-ethical understanding of terrorism and its effects?

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    Martin Kovan

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Kovan, M. ‘Freedom/Ignorance’: Buddhist-Ontological Non-Duality and Metaethics in an Age of Terror. SOPHIA 52, 381–395 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0309-1

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