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dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephen Neil
dc.contributor.editorDamien Keown, University of London
dc.date.accessioned2007-07-12
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-15T21:53:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T23:51:17Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T23:51:17Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.date.modified2014-05-15T21:53:17Z
dc.identifier.issn1076-9005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59122
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to discover a classical foundation for the establishment of universal human rights in Buddhism. Such a foundation must necessarily overcome the modern barrier imposed by the Asian values rhetoric and its claims that “Western,” Lockean, and essentially private ideas of rights have no place in Asian “family-oriented” culture. To facilitate its purpose, this paper will consider the modern, Lockean understanding of “rights” as the source of much of the Asian values’ argument, and proceed to an examination into the compatibility of a Buddhist understanding of human rights with Aristotle’s understanding of ethics and natural law. If it is possible to discover the source of universal human rights in Aristotle’s writings, as well as discover a compatibility to Buddhist beliefs and practices, then we may ground a case for the idea of human rights existing prior to their modern Lockean origins and accessible to Buddhism.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.publisherOnline
dc.publisher.placeOnline
dc.publisher.urihttp://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/category/volume-08-2001/
dc.publisher.urihttp://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/04/mccarthy001.pdf
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom42
dc.relation.ispartofpageto60
dc.relation.ispartofedition2001
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Buddhist Ethics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Ethics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchReligion and Religious Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2201
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2204
dc.titleWhy the Dalai Lama Should Read Aristotle
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codec1a
gro.facultyGriffith Business School
gro.date.issued2001
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMcCarthy, Stephen N.


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