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The foundation of Buddhist ethics for laypeople is The Five Precepts which are common to all Buddhist schools. The precepts or "five moral virtues" ( pañca-silani ) are not commands but a set of voluntary commitments or guidelines, [ 23 ] to help one live a life in which one is happy, without worries, and able to meditate well.
Video games, as products of human culture, can be seen and read as "texts". They carry myths, stories and symbols of the time in which they were created. [81] By "reading" video games, philosophers, sociologists and theologians have the opportunity to study the religious and spiritual themes in video games. [82] This can be done in several ways.
Philosopher Simon Blackburn writes that "Although the morality of people and their ethics amounts to the same thing, there is a usage that restricts morality to systems such as that of Immanuel Kant, based on notions such as duty, obligation, and principles of conduct, reserving ethics for the more Aristotelian approach to practical reasoning ...
This is the most famous argument against negative utilitarianism, [7] and it is directed against sufficiently strong versions of negative utilitarianism. [29] Many authors have endorsed this argument, [30] and some have presented counterarguments against it. Below are replies to this argument that have been presented and discussed.
Buddhist ethics emerged as an academic discipline in 1992, with the publication of Damien Keown's book The Nature of Buddhist Ethics. His subsequent co-founding of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics in 1994 further solidified the birth of a new field in the discipline of Buddhist studies. Prior to Keown's book, only a handful of books and articles ...
They separate the concept of ethics from these topics, stating: The proper role of ethical reasoning is to highlight acts of two kinds: those which enhance the well-being of others—that warrant our praise—and those that harm or diminish the well-being of others—and thus warrant our criticism.
An article in the American Economic Journal has addressed the issue of Utilitarian ethics within redistribution of wealth. The journal stated that taxation of the wealthy is the best way to make use of the disposable income they receive. This says that the money creates utility for the most people by funding government services. [150]
The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics: by Robert Aitken, about the precepts in Zen Buddhism; Excerpt from the Pāli Canon about the precepts, on website Access to Insight, archived from original on 7 May 2005; Dissertation about the role of the precepts in modern society, and the aspect of heedfulness