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Metaethics

Metaethics

There were several Sramana philosophers among them some were unsavory. According to the Pali Canon, we find four such figures:

  • Ajita Kesakambali
  • Puraṇa Kassapa
  • Pakudha Kaccāyana
  • Makkhali Gosāla

Ajita Kesakambali was a soteriological nihilist and materialist while in contrast Puraṇa Kassapa was a moral nihilist, who claimed that: “If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor … [one] should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass of flesh … [if one were] to go along the so…

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