Goodman, C.

Goodman, C. on the DRL

Professors • Translators

Charles A. Goodman

English Phonetics	Charles Goodman
Sort Name	Goodman, Charles

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	Personal Website

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Binghamton University

Current projects

The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya

PhD University

University of Michigan

Education

2002- Phd, Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Biographical Information

Charles Goodman is Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies at Binghamton University. His first book was Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (2009). As a member of the Cowherds collaboration, he is also a co-author of Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness (2016). Recently he published the first complete translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya in over ninety years, entitled The Training Anthology of Śāntideva (2016).

Charles holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the works of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophers, including Śāntideva, Bhāvaviveka, Nāgārjuna, Dharmakīrti, and Vasubandhu. His work emphasizes aspects of Buddhist thought that can offer valuable insights for the philosophy of today. Charles has also published several articles on applied ethics and political philosophy in the Western tradition. His writings on Buddhist philosophy have explored a range of topics, including ethical theory, conceptions of well-being, free will, and personal identity. (Source Accessed Mar 29, 2021)

Links

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• Goodman, C. on the DRL
• Goodman, C. on the LIB

• Books
  • The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Articles
• “Paternalist Deception in the Lotus Sūtra: A Normative Assessment,” Journal of Buddhist Ethics 18 (2011) | Read article online
• “Bhāvaviveka’s Arguments for Emptiness,” Asian Philosophy 18:2 (July 2008) pp. 167-184
• “Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahāyāna Ethics,” Philosophy East and West 58:1 (January 2008) pp. 17-35

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.