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A Critical Analysis of Neural Buddhism’s Explanation of Moral Transformation author cites Owen Flanagan, author of The Bodhisattva’s Brain: I have offered an analysis of eudaimonia Buddha. Eudaimonia—flourishing, or happy flourishing, or happiness and flourishing, or more likely flourishing that often or usually leads to some sort of happiness of a serene sort—involves reaching a…
The aesthetics of neural Buddhism My own critical response to the “neural Buddhism” phenomenon is that theories of everything, despite their beauty, can be dangerous things because their abstractions must sweep away much of what concerns us. I do not mind them, actually, if many theories of different kinds can be allowed, but such pluralism…
Opinion | The Neural Buddhists Interesting 2008 article on ‘cognitive revolution.’