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2UniversalizabilityIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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39Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 207-211. 1985.
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22An Introduction to Buddhist PhilosophyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 124-126. 2009.
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71Moral Dilemmas and PrescriptivismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 26 (3). 1989.The purpose of this paper is to establish that, For an important class of moral judgments, The claim that there are moral dilemmas is false. The judgments are the judgments an agent committed to morality makes as the conclusion of deliberation about what, All things considered, He or she morally ought to do in some situation. The argument is that these judgments are prescriptive, In the sense of implying an intention to act, And that it is implausible to think there are dilemmas involving such p…Read more
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2An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 513-518. 2010.
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13Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1): 128-129. 1994.
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139Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity and AngerRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 66 11-33. 2010.Medical analogies are commonly invoked in both Indian Buddhist dharma and Hellenistic philosophy. In the Pāli Canon, nirvana (or, in Pāli,nibbāna) is depicted as a form of health, and the Buddha is portrayed as a doctor who helps us attain it. Much later in the tradition, Śāntideva described the Buddha’s teaching as ‘the sole medicine for the ailments of the world, the mine of all success and happiness.’ Cicero expressed the view of many Hellenistic philosophers when he said that philosophy is ‘…Read more
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