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Title: Do the Compassionate Flourish?: Overcoming Anguish and the Impulse Towards Violence (Report)
Author : Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 226 KB

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Abstract In this paper I argue that in order for compassion to be considered a virtue, Western philosophical accounts of compassion must be supplemented by Buddhist understandings. After examining two potential problems with compassion (that it may burden the compassionate agent with anguish such that s/he cannot flourish and that feeling compassion may give rise to violence on behalf of the suffering), I consider a way out of both of these problems. My central claim is that the proper emotion which demonstrates the virtue of compassion is that of equanimity.