Compassion and Benevolence

A Comparative Study of Early Buddhist and Classical Confucian Ethics

Ok-Sun An (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3801-6 (ISBN)

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Compassion and Benevolence reveals the heart of early Buddhist and classical Confucian ethics in a comparative way. It explores compassion (karuna) and benevolence (jen) by analyzing their mechanisms, their moral groundworks, their applications, and their meta-ethical nature. Compassion and benevolence are taken as self-transformative virtues on the way to becoming an enlightened one and a sage. This exploration intends to reject the popular theses: early Buddhism is only self-liberation-concerned soteriology and classical Confucianism is only society-concerned thought requiring self-effacement.

The Author: Ok-Sun An studied comparative ethics and received a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Currently she is concerned with interpreting Buddhist and Confucian ethics from a feminist perspective. She teaches philosophy in Korea.

Reihe/Serie	Asian Thought and Culture ; 31
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-3801-4 / 0820438014
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3801-6 / 9780820438016
Zustand	Neuware