Richard Reilly

Gebundenes Buch

Ethics of Compassion

Bridging Ethical Theory and Religious Moral Discourse

Beschreibung

Ethics of Compassion places central themes from Buddhist (primarily) and Christian moral teachings within the conceptual framework of Western normative ethics. What results is a viable alternative ethical theory to those offered by utilitarians, Kantian formalists, proponents of the natural law tradition, and advocates of virtue ethics. Ethics of Compassion bridges Eastern and Western cultures, philosophical ethics and religious moral discourse, and notions of acting rightly and of being virtuous.

Autor

By Richard Reilly

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780739125045
• ISBN-10: 0739125044
• Artikelnr.: 25467535

Rezensionen

Ethics of Compassion not only bridges ethical theory and religious moral discourse more generally, but also Buddhist ethics and western moral theory, in the process enlarging the scope of both. This is a much needed and brilliant work in the relatively new field of comparative ethics, which falls in the sparsely populated category of 'must read.' -- Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles Reilly brings a deep knowledge of both Anglo-American ethical philosophy and Buddhist ethical thought to his book Ethics of Compassion. I was impressed by his skill in integrating these concepts. Reilly's fundamental concerns are humanistic. But he supports them with impressively rigorous scholarly analysis. I see the book as a must-read. -- Herbert Fingarette, author of Confucius: The Secular as Sacred