Buddhism and the State: Rฤjadhamma after the Sattelzeit (New Paper)
Published today in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. abstract โ Rฤjadhamma is a list of ten royal virtues or duties that occurs in the jฤtaka tales and that has been influential in Southeast Asian Buddhist political thought. Like pre-modern political thought in Europe โ that is, thought before the Sattelzeit โ Buddhist political thought lacks a concept of the โstateโ and is concerned with kings and similar rulers. Here I propose a modernized interpretation of rฤjadhamma as virtues/duties of the state. The full text (in pdf format) can be downloaded here.
Some Remarks on the Notion of โCartesian Dualismโ in Continental Philosophy
In the beginning of the 20th century, Western philosophy split into two main schools, analytic and continental philosophy, that โ barring exceptions โ neither read nor understand each other. My own work and influences are mostly within, or closely affiliated with, the analytic school, but occasionally I read some continental philosophy (as well as some non-Western philosophy). One peculiar term I encountered several times in such reading across scholastic boundaries is โCartesian dualismโ, most recently in Saito Koheiโs Marx in the Anthropocene. To be more precise, it is not the term itself that struck me as peculiar โ youโll find...