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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">38425</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2302-2024-28-1-109-119</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">APQIBK</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MAHAYANA BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИЛОСОФИЯ БУДДИЗМА МАХАЯНЫ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Problems of Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Проблематика свободы воли и моральной ответственности в этике буддизма</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7840-6842</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Volkova</surname><given-names>Vlada A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Волкова</surname><given-names>Влада Алексеевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Postgraduate Student, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирантка, кафедра истории зарубежной философии, философский факультет</p></bio><email>aleksa-vlada@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-03-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">MAHAYANA BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ФИЛОСОФИЯ БУДДИЗМА МАХАЯНЫ</issue-title><fpage>109</fpage><lpage>119</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-03-27"><day>27</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Volkova V.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Волкова В.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Volkova V.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Волкова В.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/38425">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/38425</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the 20th century, a discipline of Buddhist ethics was formed in English-speaking countries, within the framework of which a community of closely interacting researchers is engaged in the comprehension and systematization of ethical positions within Buddhism, often resorting to the use of analytical philosophy tools. One of the directions within the discipline of Buddhist ethics is an attempt to embed the ethical content of Buddhism in a contemporary Western European philosophical context and to put before it questions characteristic of Western philosophy, for example, the questions of moral responsibility, free will and determinism. While some researchers believe that Buddhist texts reflect a compatibilist position, others see Buddhist ethical position as resembling incompatibilism. The first problem faced by Buddhist researchers interested in this topic is that Buddhism does not have a concept of “free will” similar to the one that exists in Western philosophy. Nevertheless, contemporary theorists believe that classical Buddhism contains enough material to allow for a conversation about causality and responsibility. The purpose of this research is to substantiate the possibility of discussing free will in the context of the ethics of Buddhism. In order to do this the research examines the key provisions of Buddhist teaching relevant in the context of free will: dependent arising, absence of self and karma. It is noted that one of the reasons for the difference in the conclusions of researchers of Buddhist ethics regarding the issue of free will and moral responsibility in Buddhism are the peculiarities of Theravada and Mahayana and their particular texts different theorists mainly refer to.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В конце XX в. в англоязычных странах происходит формирование дисциплины буддийских этических исследований (Buddhist ethics), в рамках которой сообщество тесно взаимодействующих друг с другом исследователей занимается осмыслением и систематизацией этических положений буддизма, зачастую прибегая к использованию инструментария аналитической философии. Одно из направлений дисциплины Buddhist ethics представляет собой попытку встроить этическое содержание буддизма в современный западноевропейский философский контекст и поставить перед ним вопросы, характерные для западной философии, например, вопрос о моральной ответственности, свободе воли и детерминизме. В то время, как одни исследователи считают, что буддийские тексты отражают компатибилистскую позицию, другие видят в буддийских этических положениях указание на инкомпатибилизм. Первая проблема, с которой сталкиваются исследователи буддизма, заинтересованные в этой теме, состоит в том, что в буддизме нет представления о «свободе воли» в том виде, в каком оно существует в западной философии. Тем не менее, современные теоретики считают, что классический буддизм содержит достаточно материала, позволяющего вести разговор о каузальности и ответственности. Цель данного исследования - обосновать возможность обсуждения свободы воли в этике буддизма. Для этого в работе рассматриваются ключевые положения буддийского учения, релевантные в контексте свободы воли: зависимое возникновение, отсутствие самости и карма. Отмечается, что одним из оснований различия выводов исследователей буддийской этики в отношении вопроса о свободе воли и моральной ответственности в буддизме являются различия между тхеравадой и махаяной и то, к текстам какой традиции тот или иной теоретик преимущественно обращается.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>determinism</kwd><kwd>compatibilism</kwd><kwd>incompatibilism</kwd><kwd>karma</kwd><kwd>dependent origination</kwd><kwd>anatman</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>детерминизм</kwd><kwd>компатибилизм</kwd><kwd>инкомпатибилизм</kwd><kwd>карма</kwd><kwd>зависимое возникновение</kwd><kwd>анатман</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Loginov EV, Gavrilov MV, Mertsalov AV, Iunusov AT. Prolegomena to moral responsibility. Date Palm Compote. 2020;(15):3-100. 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