Bruno Contestabile
Biographic Data
| ID | 7742516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Contestabile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | Contestabile |
| SIGNATURE | CONTESTABILE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zurich, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2549-8437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Secular Buddhism and Justice
Starting point: The core idea of secular Buddhism is to grasp the spirit of early Buddhism and transpose it into the present. The best known approach to implement this idea is Stephen Batchelor’s Buddhism Without Beliefs, an approach which advocates an agnostic stance with regard to the doctrine of rebirth and denies its relevance for daily practice. Type of problem: • Is there a way to revise the doctrine of rebirth, instead of completely droppi…
The Denial of the World from an Impartial View
Starting point: And remember, he who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world. (Kipling 1895 Kipling, Rudyard 1895. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1966 edition10.5962/bhl.title.59116.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 116) The above quote describes the mechanism which ensures that the affirmation of the world prevails. Positively minded people have a better survival value and the survivors are always right. But are the survivors also the…
Negative Utilitarianism and Buddhist Intuition
Starting point:Serge-Christoph Kolm suggests that ‘Buddhism advocating minimizing dukkha (pain, dissatisfaction)—rather than maximizing sukkha (from which “sugar” comes) may be a kind of negative welfarism’(Kolm2006 Kolm, Serge-Christoph. 2006. Macrojustice from Equal Liberty, www.ehess.fr/kolm/document.php?id = 135. [Google Scholar], 8). Christoph Fehige, after suggesting that ‘Maximizers of preference satisfaction should instead call themselves…
On the Buddhist Truths and the Paradoxes in Population Ethics
Most discussion in population ethics has concentrated how to order populations by the relations “is better than” and “is as good as”. The topic is characterized by paradoxes which show that our considered beliefs are inconsistent in cases where the number of people and their welfare varies. The best known and most discussed example shattering our intuitions is Parfit’s Mere Addition Paradox. But why are paradoxes prevalent in population ethics? C…
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On the Buddhist Truths and the Paradoxes in Population Ethics
Most discussion in population ethics has concentrated how to order populations by the relations “is better than” and “is as good as”. The topic is characterized by paradoxes which show that our considered beliefs are inconsistent in cases where the number of people and their welfare varies. The best known and most discussed example shattering our intuitions is Parfit’s Mere Addition Paradox. But why are paradoxes prevalent in population ethics? C…
Negative Utilitarianism and Buddhist Intuition
Starting point:Serge-Christoph Kolm suggests that ‘Buddhism advocating minimizing dukkha (pain, dissatisfaction)—rather than maximizing sukkha (from which “sugar” comes) may be a kind of negative welfarism’(Kolm2006 Kolm, Serge-Christoph. 2006. Macrojustice from Equal Liberty, www.ehess.fr/kolm/document.php?id = 135. [Google Scholar], 8). Christoph Fehige, after suggesting that ‘Maximizers of preference satisfaction should instead call themselves…
The Denial of the World from an Impartial View
Starting point: And remember, he who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world. (Kipling 1895 Kipling, Rudyard 1895. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1966 edition10.5962/bhl.title.59116.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 116) The above quote describes the mechanism which ensures that the affirmation of the world prevails. Positively minded people have a better survival value and the survivors are always right. But are the survivors also the…
Secular Buddhism and Justice
Starting point: The core idea of secular Buddhism is to grasp the spirit of early Buddhism and transpose it into the present. The best known approach to implement this idea is Stephen Batchelor’s Buddhism Without Beliefs, an approach which advocates an agnostic stance with regard to the doctrine of rebirth and denies its relevance for daily practice. Type of problem: • Is there a way to revise the doctrine of rebirth, instead of completely droppi…
Buddhism (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gautama Buddha (2 works) · Intuition (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political science (2 works)