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Class number:
3365
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Title: Buddhist Ethics |
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Department: Religious Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 10 |
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Available seats: 9 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, LSC - 131 |
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Instructor(s): Angowski, Elizabeth |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
How do Buddhists understand what it means to live well with and for others? How do they imagine and sustain just institutions? To address these questions, this course examines the place of ethics and moral reflection in Buddhist thought and practice. The first third of the semester focuses on how Buddhists have framed abstract topics like the nature of being, the nature of the world, moral subjectivity, moral agency, the value of rationality, and so on. Next, we pay close attention to the formulation and application of moral guidelines in lived contexts. During the latter portion of the term, we study Buddhist approaches to contemporary social and political issues. |