The Naturalistic Principle of Karma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9215430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl H Potter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39 |
| Publication date | 1964-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1396753 |
| OpenAlex | W2317207072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
INDIAN WRITERS conversant with Western thoug.t have compared of Karma with of Causation, saying that, whereas latter governs physical order, former governs moral order.' In this conception several mistaken views about so-called of Causation are apparent. In first place, phrase the Law of Causation is highly misleading. There are two well-known senses of and in neither one does doctrine under discussion, viz., event has a state a law. The of Causation is not a prescriptive law, since a prescriptive presupposes a lawgiver. If there were a lawgiver for of Causation, it presumably would have to be God. But consider a God who promulgates Causal Law Every event must have a cause. Why should he promulgate such a law? A prescriptive is intended to compel people to act or restrain people from acting in certain ways, and this edict can do nothing of kind. God may have created world in such a fashion that every event indeed does have a cause, either by some necessity within scheme or even as a result of his continuous and direct intervention, but it does not follow from that, even if it be true, that he issued a prescriptive to that effect. Nor is of Causation a descriptive law. For a descriptive law, a law of Nature like Boyle's law, for example, is arrived at when a is constantly confirmed and never falsified. But hypothesis event has a is not treated like ordinary hypotheses; apparent falsifications are disallowed on principle. Whereas an ordinary is rejected when outcome of a properly-carried-out and relevant test is negative, causal hypothesis is safeguarded: if we fail to find a cause for a given event, we are advised to keep looking; we are not allowed to reject principle
Buddhism · Causation · Causative · Common law · Doctrine · Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Karma · Linguistics · Naturalism · Nothing · Phrase · Political science · Theology · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |