Relevant too would be the complementary notions, in Buddhist Abhidharma, of hrI and apatrApya, roughly conscience and a sense of shame. They're of interest in particular because of the explicit distinction between self-regarding and other-regarding moral attitudes made in this context. I'm not sure that there are dedicated studies on just this topic, but any good work on the abhidhamma/abhidharma will deal with this at some point.

best,
Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études, émérite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago



From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Donald R Davis via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
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Dear Ram-Prasad,

I wrote the attached piece entitled “Conscience is Tradition: Classical Hindu Law and the Ethics of Conservatism” for a recent edited volume on rules and ethics. My JAOS article “On Atmatusti as a Source of Dharma” also addresses the idea of conscience. Hope these are useful.

Best, Don

Don Davis
Dept. of Asian Studies
University of Texas at Austin



On Jul 17, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi <c.ram-prasad@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:



A colleague who is not on this list asks whether there is any literature on ‘the concept of conscience or its analogues in pre-modern Indian literature’.

Thank you,

Ram

 

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Fellow of the British Academy

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion

Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion

Lancaster University

U.K. 

 


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