Benefit of Self and Other: The Importance of Persons and their Self-Interest in Buddhist Ethics

Abstract

“Self and other” themes, [including benefit, interest, protection, goal, exchange, sameness,] demonstrate the centrality of distinct beings and their self-interest and undermine the idea that selflessness or emptiness are keys to understanding Buddhist ethics. Self and other benefit are interrelated in a productive paradox, in which compassion benefits the compassionate.

「自他」的主題（包括利益、利害、保護、目標、交換、同一）顯示眾生個體和他們個己利益的重要性，動搖認為無私和空性對理解佛教倫理而言很重要的觀點。自己和他人的利益相互關聯，處於一種生產矛盾。在此矛盾中，悲憫能夠利益悲憫者。