Varieties of Ethical Reflection
New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context
Varieties of Ethical Reflection
New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context
Description
Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives-drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources-to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics. The work pushes ethics beyond a Western philosophical tradition tending toward universalism to infuse and broaden modern ethical theory with
relativistic Asian ethical principles. The contributors introduce multicultural concepts and ideas from the Chinese Taoist, Confucian and Neo-Confucian, Indian and East Asian Buddhist, and Hindu traditions, focusing on such areas of moral controversy as the clash between women's rights and culture; universal human rights; abortion and euthanasia in a non-Western setting; and the standardization of medical practice across cultures.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Ethics in Comparative Context
Chapter 3 Self-Fulfillment Through Selflessness: The Moral Teachings of the Daode Jing
Chapter 4 Ethical Insights from Chu Hsi
Chapter 5 Concrete Ethics in Comparative Perspective: Zhuangzi Meets William James
Chapter 6 Preparing for Something that Never Happens: The Means/Ends Problem in Modern Culture
Part 7 Ethics in Cultural Context-Variety or Relativism?
Chapter 8 Pluralism in Practice: Incommensurability and Constraints on Change in Ethical Discourses
Chapter 9 The Moral Interpretation of Culture
Part 10 Ethics in a Diverse World of Conflict-Gender, Law, and Medicine
Chapter 11 Ethics in the Female Voice: Murasaki Shikibu and the Framing of Ethics in Japan
Chapter 12 The Enlightenment Paradigm of Native Right and Forged Hybridity of Cultural Rights in British India
Chapter 13 Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia: A Buddhist Perspective
Chapter 14 In Extremis: Abortion, Suicide, and Death from a Buddhist Perspective
Chapter 15 Good Clinical Practice? Can East Asia Accommodate Western Standards?
Product details
| Published | 23 Nov 2002 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 360 |
| ISBN | 9780739162255 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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