It takes the average reader 4 hours and 38 minutes to read The Nature of Buddhist Ethics by Damien Keown
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In this book the author considers data from both early and later schools of Buddhism in an attempt to provide an overall characterization of the structure of Buddhist ethics. The importance of ethics in the Buddha's teachings is widely acknowledged, but the pursuit of ethical ideals has up to now been widely held to be secondary to the attainment of knowledge. Drawing on the Aristotelian tradition of ethics the author argues against this intellectualization of Buddhism and in favour of a new understanding of the tradition in terms of which ethics plays an absolutely central role. In the...
The Nature of Buddhist Ethics by Damien Keown is 269 pages long, and a total of 69,671 words.
This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 20 minutes to read The Nature of Buddhist Ethics aloud.
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