@Meaningness No; most I've seen arguing for more ethics in mindfulness are drawing from Asian/traditional Buddhist sources.
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@Buddhistethics Do they argue for ethical positions that would be unacceptable to secular American lefties?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Um, well some secular Am. lefties maybe; others no. I'm not sure :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Buddhistethics Hmm. Could you give concrete examples of ethical positions they’d support that many Americans would reject?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness and in the mindfulness debate, the insistence that we include ethics rubs many wrongly (vs protestant 'private religion' ideal)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Buddhistethics What I see going on is that “American Buddhism” is effectively a semi-secularized Protestant sect that wants to evangelize,1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Buddhistethics and meditation was its main draw. Since that’s now available elsewhere, a crisis because American Buddhism has nothing >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Buddhistethics distinctive to offer. It’s invented “Buddhist ethics” as its new unique selling proposition, but >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Buddhistethics its “Buddhist ethics” is just American secular liberal ethics (which is just Puritan ethics updated for contraception).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness hmmm... interesting thesis :) Similar perhaps to Zizek?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@Buddhistethics I’ve read only a brief bit of Zizek’s analysis, which seemed partly right and partly wrong…
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