Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Editor’s Introduction 1
7. 1. How Should We Live? Happiness, Human Flourishing, and the Good Human Life 23
8. 2. What Is Knowledge? Knowledge in the Context of Buddhist Thought 58
9. 3. Does Reality Have a Ground? Madhyamaka and Nonfoundationalism 79
10. 4. Can Consciousness Be Explained? Buddhist Idealism and the “Hard Problem” in Philosophy of Mind 97
11. 5. Is Anything We Do Ever Really Up to Us? Western and Buddhist Philosophical Perspectives on Free Will 129
12. 6. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? “And None of Us Deserving the Cruelty or the Grace”: Buddhism and the Problem of Evil 164
13. 7. How Much Is Enough? Greed, Prosperity, and the Economic Problem of Happiness: A Comparative Perspective 205
14. 8. What Do We Owe Future Generations? Compassion and Future Generations: A Buddhist Contribution to an Ethics of Global Interdependence 250
15. Concluding Remarks 275
16. For Further Reading and Study 287
17. Contributors 293
18. Index 297