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Both these stories come from Prof. Elizabeth Kenney's lecture on upaya
that I heard when I took her "Religion in Japan" course at Kansai Gaidai University
in the spring semester of 2006. I'm telling them from memory. The
Western Buddhist teacher with AIDS was probably �sel Tendzin. I'm
pretty sure the academic professor that failed his entire Buddhist
class was one of her former colleagues.

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The difference between this and Kantian ethical reasoning is that this
is a discussion of if-then contingencies, which actually map onto
reality; whereas Kantian ethical reasoning blindly asserts categorical
goals, which do not.

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Ben Dench graduated valedictorian of his class from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in the Spring Semester of 2007 with a B.A. in philosophy (his graduation speech, which received high praise, is available on YouTube). He is currently (more...)

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