불교윤리와 현대윤리학의 만남

• 영문명: Understanding Buddhist Ethics in Terms ofContemporary Ethics
• 발행기관: 불교학연구회
• 저자명: 안옥선(An Aok-Sun)
• 간행물 정보: 『불교학연구』제12호, 125~151쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 불교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.01

영문 초록

  The purpose of this paper is to see how Buddhist ethics has been understood in the west. First this paper points out two difficulties in understanding Buddhist ethics. One difficulty is that the scope, meaning, and role of Buddhist ethics cannot be easily defined. The other difficulty is that Buddhist ethics cannot be easily explained in a comprehensive manner due to its diversity and complexity in its content and nature. These same difficulties also appear when we understand Buddhist ethics in terms of contemporary ethical theories. Consequently, it is not easy to point out some similarities between Buddhist ethics and comtemporary ethical theories. In addition, it is not easy to find a theoretical framework to explain Buddhist ethics in a comprehensive manner.
  A most favored theoretical framework explaining Buddhist ethics is virtue ethics. Most western scholars consider Buddhist ethics as virtue ethics. But there are some disagreements among them with regard to what type of virtue ethics fits to Buddhism. The author also thinks that virtue ethics is a best theoretical framework explaining Buddhist ethics in a most comprehensive way. According to the author, Buddhist ethics rejects both Kantian deontological ethics taking a moral law as absolute and classical utilitarianism taking utility as the sole criterion of good.

목차

Ⅰ. 머리말
Ⅱ. 불교윤리 이해의 어려움
Ⅲ. 불교윤리와 현대윤리학의 만남: 불교윤리에 대한 포괄적 이해
Ⅳ. 맺음말 : 불교윤리와 현대윤리학의 만남의 성과
영문초록

키워드

불교윤리 Buddhist Ethics 현대윤리학 Contemporary Ethics 덕 윤리 Virtue Ethics 의무론 deontology 공리주의 utilitarianism 선악의 기준 criterion of good and evil