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Freewill and Responsibility
Freewill and Responsibility
Freewill and Responsibility
&
Responsibility
of Buddhist Ethics
Free will
Freedom of humans to make choices
Compatibilism
that are not determined
by prior causes or divine intervention The thesis that free will is compatible with determinism.
Because free will is typically taken to be a necessary
condition of moral responsibility, compatibilism is
sometimes expressed in terms of a compatibility between
Determinism
moral responsibility and determinism.
2. Because of
1. Because of 3. Has no cause
God Almighty’s
past deeds or reason
creation
(pubbekatahetu) (ahetuapaccaya)
(issaranimmāna
hetu)
Personality as
Paṭicca Three Kammavipāka
five
samuppāda characteristics
agreegates