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Chapter 1General Introduction

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 1 –10

[This chapter, a general introduction to the book as a whole, provides a broad summary of its aims, methodology and structure. Firstly, it considers its purpose in engaging the question of the Buddhist prohibition of killing, with respect to existing secondary literature (provided in some...

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Text and Tradition: An Overview of Sources

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 13 –21

[This chapter provides an introductory thematic overview and contextualisation of the Pali-language sources available for early Indian Buddhist statement concerning the moral evaluation of killing, its prohibition in the first precept, and the larger normative context of non-violence in which...

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Canonical Buddhist Discourse on Killing

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 23 –44

[This chapter focusses on the guiding norms concerning intentional killing and its prohibition encoded in the first Buddhist precept. These are embedded in a broader theoretical structure which includes explicit and implicit value-claims concerning life and sentience, and the ways in which...

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Interpreting the Precept: Evaluative Criteria in the Theravāda

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 45 –67

[This chapter continues the discussion of Pali Buddhist grounds for the prohibition of killing, and its moral evaluation more generally, in a focus on the Theravādan commentarial statements of Buddhaghosa. This is preceded by a broader discussion of how the first precept is discursively framed in...

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Mahāyāna Exceptionalism and the Lethal Act

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 69 –83

[This chapter turns to the development in the Mahāyāna of the notion of auspicious or compassionate killing, typically performed by bodhisattva agents, the superlative moral exemplars of the Greater Vehicle. This development can be seen as in part emerging from some of the metaphysical...

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Affect and Cognition: Unwholesome Consciousness, Hatred, Wrong View, and Delusion

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 85 –105

[This chapter engages the relations between affective and cognitive causal factors in killing evident in Abhidhamma and Abhidharma commentarial Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda literature. In particular it seeks to establish the degree to which the latter factors can be understood as psychologically...

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Buddhist Personhood and a Doxastic Rationale for Killing

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 107 –132

[This chapter introduces in detail the Buddhist metaphysics of the person, in both soteriological and ontological registers. The implicit value of life is analysed with regard to the telos of Buddhist praxis, before describing the synchronic Buddhist conception of the person as an aggregated...

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Critique of the Conventional: The Cessation of Volition and Buddhist Dualism of the Person

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 135 –154

[This chapter focusses in depth on the Buddhist trope-theoretic dualism of the person, especially as this interactionist account pertains to the properties of persons salient for killing, in particular the obviation of hostile volitions. The account provides an overview of Buddhist...

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Constituting the Other: The Conventional Identity of Persons

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 155 –164

[This chapter is a brief transitional discussion between the universal Buddhist-metaphysical features of personhood relevant to generic features of killing (such as volition, psychophysical constitution, and the causal relations between trope-particulars) and more specifically constituted...

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Persons as the Objects of Lethal Justice

Kovan, Martin

Pages: 165 –187

[This chapter engages an in-depth comparative analysis of theories of preventive and neo-Kantian retributivist lethal punishment and their Buddhist critique, taking in metaphysical, psychological and normative grounds. After distinguishing legal lethal punishment in its preventive and deterrent...

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