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Consequences of Compassion - Charles Goodman

Consequences of Compassion

An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-537519-0 (ISBN)
CHF 153,00 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the theoretical structure of Buddhist accounts of morality, defends them against objections, and discusses their implications for free will, the justification of punishment, and other issues.
To many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist tradition pertain to ethics. Many readers have drawn inspiration from Buddhism's emphasis on compassion, nonviolence, and tolerance, its concern for animals, and its models of virtue and self-cultivation. There has been, however, controversy and confusion about which Western ethical theories resemble Buddhist views and in what respects. In this book, Charles Goodman illuminates the relations between Buddhist concepts and Western ethical theories. Every version of Buddhist ethics, says Goodman, takes the welfare of sentient beings to be the only source of moral obligations. Buddhist ethics can thus be said to be based on compassion in the sense of a motivation to pursue the welfare of others. On this interpretation, the fundamental basis of the various forms of Buddhist ethics is the same as that of the welfarist members of the family of ethical theories that analytic philosophers call 'consequentialism.' Goodman uses this hypothesis to illuminate a variety of questions. He examines the three types of compassion practiced in Buddhism and argues for their implications for important issues in applied ethics, especially the justification of punishment and the question of equality.

Charles Goodman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Asian and Asian-American Studies at Binghamton University. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.

INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.7.2009
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 160 mm
Gewicht 516 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-19-537519-X / 019537519X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-537519-0 / 9780195375190
Zustand Neuware
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