[Buddha-l] Thoughts on action in 2007

[jkirk]

Peter Singer? Pardon my ignorance but who's he and what did he write?
Joanna
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> On Thursday 28 December 2006 08:20, Gregory Bungo wrote:
>
>> In the graph with economic issues mapped horizontally, and social
>> issues mapped vertically, capitalism is on the right, and individualism
>> is on the bottom.
>
> As I understand the model, the economic scale represents a person's
> willingness to have a government-regulated economy. The left welcomes
> regulation and taxation, while the right resists it. Capitalism does not
> occur on the chart as such. One can be a capitalist (that is, one who 
> invests
> in corporations) and still be far to the left (if, for example, one 
> welcomes
> governmental regulation of the corporations in which one invests). A 
> number
> of Buddhists I know are capitalists who welcome corporate regulation. I 
> think
> David Loy espouses a kind of governmentally regulated capitalism, as does
> Peter Singer. (Loy is a Buddhist; Singer might as well be.)
>
>> So they overlap in the lower right.  It's a simplistic
>> model, but there is some truth to it.
>
> Yes, it is simplistic, but at least it is less oversimplified that the
> left-right and liberal-conservative false dichotomies. And it does seem to
> have room for Buddhists,albeit mostly in the crowded southwest quadrant.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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