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Stephen E. Harris, Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2024, 254pp., $26.95 (pbk), 9781350379534.
Reviewed by Jay Garfield, Smith College and Harvard University
This book is the most recent entry in the Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophy. The twelve previously published books are uniformly excellent, and address not only the larger, often more salient, non-European traditions, but also traditions less-often studied, but rich in insight. Books in the series not only introduce philosophers to a broad range of world philosophical literature and thought, but also engage thoughtfully and critically with the tradition they address, placing that tradition in conversation with contemporary philosophy and guiding the reader’s further study. In short, this series makes it possible for any philosopher to honor the global nature of our discipline.
Stephen Harris’ exploration of Buddhist ethics through the study of Śāntideva’s Bodhicāryāvatāra (which he translates as Guide to the Practices of Awakening) is…
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