摘要：John Pettit has written an eminently intelligent, scholarly, and detailedreview of my book Altruism and Reality. For this I am extremely grate-ful. I am not sure, however, that I agree with some of his more criticalpoints, and it may be of some value to try and formulate a tentative re-sponse to what seems to me to be his two main contentions: (a) that Mipham, contrary to what I imply in my book, does not hold in any obviousway to a gzhan stong position, at least if the gzhan stong position is held toinvolve some sort of absolutism; and (b) that my attack on .àntideva.sinference from no self to altruism at BCA 8:101.3 is misplaced because Ihave ignored the relevance of the innate misapprehension of self, to beundermined for the Madhyamaka in particular through meditation in addi-tion to philosophical analysis
