Philosophy's big questions : comparing Buddhist and Western approaches / edited by Steven M. Emmanuel.
"Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions-about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffer...
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Table of Contents:
- How should we live? : happiness, human flourishing, and the good human life / Stephen J. Laumakis
- What is knowledge? : knowledge in the context of Buddhist thought / Douglas Duckworth
- Does reality have a ground? : Madhyamaka and nonfoundationalism / Jan Westerhoff
- Can consciousness be explained? : Buddhist idealism and the "hard problem" in philosophy of mind / Dan Arnold
- Is Anything we do ever really up to us? : Western and Buddhist philosophical perspectives on free will / Rick Repetti
- Why do bad things happen to good people? : "and none of us seserving the xruelty or the frace" : Buddhism and the problem of evil / Amber D. Carpenter
- How much is enough? : greed, prosperity, and the economic problem of happiness / Steven M. Emmanuel
- What do we owe future generations? : compassion and future generations-a buddhist contribution to an ethics of global interdependence / Peter Hershock
- Concluding remarks / Steven M. Emmanuel.