Ideology, Equity, and Structure: Comments on Tzu-wei Hung’s ‘Equity and Marxist Buddhism’
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Ideology Equity and Structure Comments on Tzu-wei Hung s Equity and Marxist Buddhism .pdf
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Haslanger, Sally
Date Issued
October 1, 2024
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Australasian Philosophical Review
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Taylor & Francis
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Haslanger, S. (2024). Ideology, Equity, and Structure: Comments on Tzu-wei Hung’s ‘Equity and Marxist Buddhism.’ Australasian Philosophical Review, 8(4), 338–344.
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Abstract
In his essay, ‘Equity and Marxist Buddhism’, Tzu-wei Hung argues that Marxist Buddhism brings a commitment to social justice together with a distinctive form of virtue theory. In my commentary, I raise several questions from a Marxian perspective: (1) Might it be argued that Marxist Buddhism is (in the critical sense) ideological (similar to religion) because the spiritual goal of ‘transcendence’ distracts us from the need to fight for emancipation? (2) Can justice as equity be achieved by promoting individual altruism? (3) Aren’t both mainstream accounts of justice and Marxist Buddhism aspirational and so need to rely on non-ideal theory to achieve justice?
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2024.2562911
