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    The doctrine of non-self is incompatible with the Buddhis... — Carmelics
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    The doctrine of non-self is incompatible with the Buddhist doctrines of karma and rebirth

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    • 1.Karma requires a morally continuous agent who accumulates and 'owns' the consequences of intentional actions across time.
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    • 2.Anattā denies any persistent self or soul that could constitute such a morally continuous agent.
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    • 3.Without a persistent agent to bear moral responsibility, karmic inheritance across lives collapses into mere causal sequence with no normative force.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionism in 'Reasons and Persons' demonstrates that psychological continuity without a persisting self cannot ground desert-based moral accountability.
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    • 2.Buddhist rebirth requires that the being born bears the specific karmic debt of the specific being who died, not merely resembles them causally.
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    • 3.A causal stream of momentary mental events, as in Vasubandhu's Abhidharma analysis, generates qualitative continuity but cannot ground the numerical identity that karmic justice presupposes.
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    • 1.The body ceases to exist at death
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    • 2.Mental states all originate in dependence on sense-object contact events, so no psychological constituent can transmigrate
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    • 3.If no constituent moves from one life to the next, the being in the next life cannot be the same person as the being in this life
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    This line of objection to the Buddha’s teaching of non-self is more commonly formulated in response to the argument from impermanence, however. Perhaps its most dramatic form is aimed at the Buddha’s acceptance of the doctrines of karma and rebirth. It is clear that the body ceases to exist at death. And given the Buddha’s argument that mental states all originate in dependence on sense-object contact events, it seems no psychological constituent of the person can transmigrate either. Yet the Bu
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