Buddhism and Moral Psychology
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2021) | Viewed by 582
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Buddhism aims at human perfection through the practice of moral behavior, the development of mindfulness, and the attainment of insight. How should one deal with the afflictive mental states of greed, ill-will, and delusion, among others? How can one develop virtuous states of mind? How can one perceive the moral implications of one’s present situation?
Papers for this Special Issue might approach moral psychology in Buddhism from a number of perspectives: evolutionary psychology (how does the Buddhist analysis of the human condition resonate with what we know of human origins? What is the Buddhist analysis of the nature of emotions such as empathy, guilt, anger, shame, disgust, awe, which evolved to aid in survival?); cognitive sciences (what does brain research tell us about emotions and their control?); ethical theory (what is the moral psychology of deontological, consequentialist, or virtue ethics?); descriptive (what kind of moral reasoning is used by Buddhists of a particular type in a particular place?); classical Buddhist training (how does one develop virtues?); philosophy (how might Buddhists approach the “Trolley Problem” or other ethical conundrums?); Moral Foundation Theory (Haidt and Joseph); moral development (comparing the movement of a Buddhist practitioner from one ethical basis to another to the stages of moral development by Kohlberg, et al).
Moral psychology is an important and emerging aspect of Buddhist ethics that, to the best of my knowledge, has not yet been the theme of any collection of papers or monograph.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Cozort
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- moral psychology
- emotions
- moral reasoning
- moral development.
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