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Non-Western Philosophy

Karma & Human Freedom

Utkarsh Chawla tells us why we’re in the moral Goldilocks zone.

What makes a human life distinctively human? Buddhist thought answers this question in a cosmological vein. Herein humans are one among numerous forms of life that inhabit the universe. These categories of life are far broader than those modern biology has to offer us. Each form of life has its own radically different embodiment, lived-world and circumstances of existing. And yet, Buddhist texts stress, the human form of life provides the greatest opportunity for spiritual and ethical development.

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