| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The basic standpoint of Buddhist economics is to criticize Western economics. It is supposed that “self-interest” in the theory of Western economics, regarded as being “egoistic,” is opposed to the Buddhist philosophy of “love and compassion,” regarded as being “altruistic.” I would like to argue, however, that it is impossible to place the two theories into such a simple conflict structure. In this paper, focusing on the rationality of choice, we discuss this question relating to this conflict, and demonstrate a similarity between the theory of rationality presented by Amartya Sen and the theory of “wise self-interest” offered by the 14th Dalai Lama. The rationality in wise self-interest, which argues that the best way to look after self-interests is to take care of the interests of others, is similar to the rationality observed in modern economics in terms of rationality as the use of reasoned scrutiny.
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