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All the ideas for 'Buddhacarita', 'poems' and 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action'

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6 ideas

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

15677

Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

15671

Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]