"If I were a Buddhist, says Flanagan, “I would be troubled by not understanding how Buddhist ethics follows from Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology." Can you clarify that relation? Why and how should an acknowledgement of the “noble truths,” no-self, emptiness, transience, etc. lead someone to be more compassionate, kind, and happy?
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Are “hybrid cosmopolitans” who borrow and combine metaphysical, ethical, and spiritual (etc.) insight from multiple traditions as happy as those committed to a single tradition?
(Write two paragraphs on one of the preceding, OR on the discussion question pertaining to our October discussions of your choice.)
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