PHIL-201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Annihilationism, Dharma
14 Dec 2017
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Connected with cause and effect: actions are causally connected. The past and the present together impact the future. Connections between acts have moral consequence: good actions get good consequence, bad actions get bad. Controls and creates moral behaviour, especially areas in which law enforcement may be lacking. Enforced by the person themselves, believing in consequence. The notions of karma and rebirth were in place prior to the buddha. Actions both good and bad, don"t end in this life: the manifest in future rebirths that are good/bad. Thus one may live in riches from crime in this life, but in ones rebirth one will suffer for their bad actions. Cause and effect carry on past this life. A common way of thinking that preceded buddhism, belief in a meting out of justice. The law of karma would be enforced, even if the gods failed to ensure good/bad consequences for people.
