開催日：2022年6月22日

会場：京都大学吉田キャンパス文学部校舎大会議室

第179回CAPEレクチャー by Prof. Nina Strohminger(2022/06/22)

講演者:Prof. Nina Strohminger(The University of Pennsylvania）

日時: 2022年06月22日(水) 16:45-18:15

開催場所:京都大学吉田キャンパス文学部校舎大会議室
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タイトル:
“Death and the Self”

アブストラクト:
It is an old philosophical idea that if the future self is literally different from the current self, one should be less concerned with the death of the future self. This paper examines the relation between attitudes about death and the self among Hindus, Westerners, and three Buddhist populations, including Tibetan monks. Compared with other groups, monastic Tibetans gave particularly strong denials of the continuity of self, across several measures. We predicted that the denial of self would be associated with a lower fear of death and greater generosity toward others. To our surprise, we found the opposite. Monastic Tibetan Buddhists showed significantly greater fear of death than any other group. The monastics were also less generous than any other group about the prospect of giving up a slightly longer life in order to extend the life of another.