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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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      Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️ Retweeted David Chapman

      Interesting, although I think your definition of compassion is flat out wrong. Makes me question your conclusions.https://twitter.com/meaningness/status/647802917026557953 …

      Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️ added,

      David Chapman @Meaningness
      Why compassion is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, stupid, useless, wrong foundation for ethics. https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/traditional-buddhism-has-no-ethical-system/#compassion …
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    2. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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      @Meaningness : You say "Compassion is the subjective feeling of another’s pain." That's a definition of empathy w/r/t to pain.

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    3. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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      @Meaningness : Compassion is the quivering heart's response to suffering.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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      @VincentHorn Not sure I’m seeing a difference yet… what’s the response? Maybe I need to say: desire to alleviate other’s pain?

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    5. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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      @Meaningness : The response can be a feeling, it can be an action--it isn't limited and it isn't necessarily passive. #myexperience

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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      @VincentHorn I’m not disagreeing, but I don’t know of a (non-tantric) source for this idea. Can you point at something?

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    7. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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      @Meaningness : I probably missed the over-arching context of the post. :)

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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      @VincentHorn Should become clearer are the series develops, I hope!

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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      @VincentHorn Point there is just that compassion doesn’t give reliable guidance about what to do. So it’s inadequate as a basis for ethics.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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      @VincentHorn That’s not to say it’s not incredibly important—it is! But it’s only part of the story, and Buddhism lacks the rest.

      12:18 PM - 28 Sep 2015
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        2. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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          @Meaningness : I'm curious to do a series on this for @BuddhistGeeks.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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          @VincentHorn @BuddhistGeeks I’d be up for that, thanks! Let’s wait for the series to run and then plan it. All but final post are written.

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        2. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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          @Meaningness : Yeah, so by "Buddhism" you mean classical Buddhism then?

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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          @VincentHorn Well, modernist Buddhism added social justice theory (history posted today: https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/how-asian-buddhism-imported-western-ethics/ …)which was one missing piece

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        2. Vince Fakhoury Horn  👽 🎙️‏ @VincentHorn 28 Sep 2015
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          @Meaningness : You've seen that Batchelor's new book, After Buddhism, is an attempt to secularize Buddhist ethics yeah?

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Sep 2015
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          @VincentHorn No, I didn’t know about After Buddhism! Will be interested to learn more about what he advocates.

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