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Advaita says the Self is not the doer. Is that an answer to the free will problem, or a way of leaving it?
I'm a retired electrical engineer in Chennai and I have read Advaita for most of my adult life. I want to put my own tradition's answer on the free will question to the test, because I suspect it is either very deep…
Started by Arjun Iyer0 replies154 views -
If there is no self, who has free will? Is there a Buddhist position at all?
I guide trekkers in the Annapurna region and read Madhyamaka in tea houses in the evenings. A Swiss client asked me last month what Buddhism says about free will. I said it depends what you mean, which was true but cowardly. Here…
Started by Nima Tsering Gurung6 replies220 views -
Williams’s integrity objection, not the arithmetic, is the deepest problem for utilitarianism
I served twenty-two years in the army. I have read a fair amount about moral injury, the damage done to people who were made to do, or failed to prevent, things that violated their deepest commitments, often in situations where every option…
Started by Choi Byeong-hun6 replies196 views -
What did Milton Friedman actually argue in his 1970 essay on business and profit?
I founded a startup in Mumbai, burnt out, and I'm now reading my way back. In every business-ethics discussion I've been in, someone quotes Friedman's line that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits, and everyone either nods or…
Started by Rohan Desai4 replies102 views