@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00001221,
 author = {Taniguchi, Shoyo Masako},
 journal = {鹿児島大学歯学部紀要},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {A conventional notion regarding ethics and natural scrence is that they are fundamentally different intellectual disciplines, in which ethics is the study of values dealing with the concepts of ought or should (rooted in the dichotomous of good/evil or right/wrong) while natural science is value-free research which attempts to deal with is, facts,  or phenomena. This article argues that the above view is one-sided if examined from an Early Buddhist perspective. The Early Buddhist canonical texts introduced an ethical system that was non-prescriptive and non-judgmental that dealt with is without utilizing concepts or terms that connote good/evil  They explained its moral system by the notion of health by utilizing the law of causality obtained through direct observation of phenomena. These texts not only presented a moral system based upon the principle of causality, but also enjoined others to experiment, examine, verify, realize, and replicate it. This article discusses some similarities and differences between the Early Buddhist methodologies and those of contemporary dental/medical science. For Early Buddhists, health meant mental health,  while for dentistry or mediclne It means oral or physrcal health. For the former, the goal was the normalization of mental functions that normalize ethical behavror,  while for the latter It is the normalization of oral or physical functions. In conclution, this article demonstrates how Early Buddhists used ethics as a scientific discipline to understand the nature of the ethical world and that it was not different from other scientific discplines that are applied to the physical world today.},
 pages = {35--62},
 title = {Early Buddhist Ethics and Modern Science : Methodology of Two Disciplines},
 volume = {19},
 year = {1999}
}