Religious Studies
- Religious Studies / Volume 19 / Issue 02 / June 1983, pp 223-228
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500015055 (About DOI), Published online: 24 October 2008
Articles
Is Buddhist Karmic Theory False?
J. E. Whitea1
a1 Professor of Philosophy, St Cloud State University
In his recent article ‘Notes Towards a Critique of Buddhist Karmic Theory’ Paul J. Griffiths makes four criticisms of Buddhist karmic theory: it is empirically false, it is incoherent, it is morally repugnant, and it is vacuous. After listing these four criticisms, Griffiths concludes that ‘all these mean that Buddhist karmic theory as expounded in the major theoretical works devoted to it must be false’ (p. 291).
