— philosophy —
The Six Perfections
Dale S. Wright
— 2009 —
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Wright reads the Mahayana paramitas — generosity, morality, tolerance, energy, meditation, wisdom — as a practical, secular ethics of character for modern life.
⚖The case for it
Wright reads the Mahayana paramitas — generosity, morality, tolerance, energy, meditation, wisdom — as a practical, secular ethics of character for modern life. Buddhist self-cultivation translated, minus the metaphysics, into how a person might actually become good.
— the canon
✕The case against
Wright modernizes the perfections so thoroughly that the cosmology falls away, and what remains can read like virtue ethics in Buddhist dress: accessible, but doctrinally thin. Traditionalists will miss the metaphysics; philosophers may want harder argument. A bridge book at risk of belonging fully to neither shore.
— the honest librarian
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