154 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



25-126 Discussion of the fifth question [forming the bulk of book 1] 

 25 Table of contents of the discussion of the fifth question 



Question 5: How many kinds of morality are there? Morality is 

 Of one kind in one aspect (one monad) [§26] 

 Of two kinds in each of seven aspects (seven dyads) [§27-§33] 

 Of three kinds in each of five aspects (five triads) [§34- §39] 

 Of four kinds in each of four aspects (four tetrads) [§40-§113] 

 Of five kinds in each of two aspects (two pentads) [§114-§126] 



26 Morality is of one kind if viewed — 

 Monad 1. and sole — as a being moral 



27 Morality is of two kinds if viewed — 



Dyad 1. — as a conforming with positive rules of conduct (precepts) 

 or with negative rules of conduct (prohibitions) 



28 Dyad 2. — - as a conforming with the minor precepts 



(of the Khandhaka: that is, Mahavagga and Cullavagga) 



or with the major precepts 



(of the Bhikkhu- and Bhikkhunl-vibhanga) 



29 Dyad 3. — as abstention from killing etc. 



or as all the five kinds of morality except such abstention: 



to wit, abandonment, vohtion, restraint, non-transgression: §125 



30 Dyad 4. — as interested or as disinterested 



31 Dyad 5. — as undertaken to be practised for a part of life 



or as undertaken to be practised until the end of life 



32 Dyad 6. — - as violable (for the sake of gain etc.) or as inviolable 



33 Dyad 7. — ■ as ordinary or as transcendental 



34 Morality is of three kinds if viewed • — 



Triad 1. — • as inferior or as middling or as superior 



35 Triad 2. — as practised out of respect for one's self or for others or 



for the moral law 



36 Triad 3. — as interested (that is, motivated by some bad desire or view) 



or as disinterested (that is, unmotivated by such desire or view) 

 or as tranquilized (that is, as being beyond the sphere of such disturbing 

 influences, because it has reached its goal) 



37 Triad 4. — as pure or as impure or as doubtful 



38 Triad 5. — as sekkha (that is, as the morality of those who have attained 



the four Paths and three Fruits) 

 or as a-sekkha that is, as the inorality of those who have attained Arahat- 



ship, the fourth Fruit) 

 or as the morality of those who have not yet attained even the first Path 



39 The Patisambhida-magga speaks of good and bad and indifferent sila; 



but since sila there means 'disposition,' and since it means 'morality' in 

 this discussion (which is not about bad moi'als), therefore this triad is not 

 brought in here 



