This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and rejects, with apparent universality, “attachment to views.” On the other hand, Buddhist traditions of practice recommend actions based in compassion and loving kindness, and the cultivation of contentment, introspective awareness, and peace of mind. It is argued that these arenas are not in conflict, but are linked through Buddhist psychology, wherein the proven limitations of concepts are quite explicitly leveraged to show that beings hampered by such limits ought to think and act with epistemic humility. The result is not nihilism, but a method for improving our perspectives on ourselves and our society—a method that may serve as a model for humanistic research.

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佛教的连贯性：相对主义、伦理学和心理学

本文捍卫了佛教对于怀疑论传统如何解释其道德立场这一问题的回答。佛教思想和实践中的两个领域通常被认为是不同的，甚至是矛盾的。一方面，有一种对涅槃的渴望，以及一种将一切事物描述为“空性”并普遍拒绝“见地执着”的哲学。另一方面，佛教的修行传统提倡以慈悲和慈爱为基础的行为，以及培养满足感、内省意识和内心的平静。有人认为，这些领域并不冲突，而是通过佛教心理学联系在一起，其中已被证明的概念局限性被相当明确地利用，以表明受这些限制阻碍的人应该以认知上的谦卑来思考和行动。