'Never send to ask for whom the bell tolls...'
Of course they did but then Buddhism managed to become a religion...
Perhaps what I should have said is that Kant disposed of the
spiritual basis of morality?
Anyway, we're into Nietzsche at the moment and that's a very
different ballpark.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 28/05/2008, at 1:54 PM, Moose wrote:
> Both the Buddha and Lao Tzu managed to do without god(s) and have
> quite
> powerful systems of what Westerners would call morality.
>
> Although the roots of the idea go back much further, I think of Master
> Do-gen's formulation as about as pure and succinct as is possible.
> "What
> you do to others, you do to yourself." It seems to me more spiritually
> and psychologically pure and direct than the more common, Western
> formulations.
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