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By Dr Lee Todd Warren

Exploring the philosophical issues of the character of self, this booklet attracts from of the main influential Indian masters, Śaṅkara and Śāntideva. Todd demonstrates that an ethics of altruism remains to be attainable inside of a metaphysics which assumes there to be no self sustaining self. a brand new moral version in accordance with the notions of ‘flickering attention’ and ‘constructive altruism’ is proposed.

By evaluating the metaphysics and ethics of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara, Todd exhibits that the methodologies and goals of those Buddhist and Hindu masters hint remarkably comparable cross-cutting paths. Treating Buddhism and Hinduism with equivalent appreciate, this booklet compares and reinterprets the Indian fabric in an effort to have interaction with modern Western debates on self and to teach that Indian philosophy is certainly a philosophy of dialogue.

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