Patience and Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8096467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Bommarito (0000-0002-7401-729X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 269-286 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pew.2014.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W1964380885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
In much of Western philosophy, patience tends to be either overlooked or described as being non-moral and valuable only instrumentally. This is in stark contrast with its central role in Buddhist ethics. Offered here is a Buddhistinspired account of how patience can be a moral virtue. It is argued that virtuous patience involves having a perspective on the place of our own desires and values among others and a sense of their relative importance
Buddhism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Patience · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |