 | George Leopold Hurst - 1905 - 180 pages
...States (or Phenomena). It is not a treatise but a manual or text-book. Its subject is ethics. Its method is in great part an analysis of the psychological and psychophysical data of ethics." (Cf. Mrs Rhys Davids, A Buddh1st Manual of Psycholog1cal Ethics of the Fourth Century BG) relation... | |
 | 1900 - 906 pages
...supplied at p. xxvi of the introduction, where we learn that the work is a " manual or text-book," and that " its subject is ethics," but that " the inquiry...psychological and psychophysical data of ethics." Comparing the teaching of Buddha with that of Plato, the erudite authoress remarks that " whereas the... | |
 | 1923 - 496 pages
...development) from that inherited by him, must lend his interpretations an importance and a suggestiveness far greater than that which the writings of any Christian...is assigned it in the Commentary. Buddhaghosa only maintains that, together with the rest of the Abhidhamma, 1 it was the ipsissima verba of the Buddha... | |
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And then, that its subject is ethics, but that the inquiry is conducted from a psychological standpoint, and, indeed, is in great part an analysis of the psychological and psycho-physical data of ethics. 