Buddhism Beyond Morality: A Note on Two Senses of Transcendence

Journal of Religious Ethics 6 (2):319 - 325 (1978)
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This paper takes up the claim, made in some Buddhist texts, that one can transcend morality. The author distinguishes a weak and a strong sense in which this might be so, and explicates the strong sense in terms of Strawson's notion of presupposition.

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