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The Debate About Virtue Ethics in Buddhism
There's debate about whether Buddhism is ultimately a form of virtue ethics or the form of consequentialism. Do you feel like it's useful to describe Buddhist, for example, Buddhist ethics describing it in Western ethical terms? Is it useful to try to say Buddhists are utilitarian or something like that? I think so as long as we start with the acknowledgement that both traditions started in very different concepts and contexts,.