Varieties of Ethical Reflection

by Barnhart, Michael; Angle, Stephen C. (CON); Becker, Carl B. (CON); Bilimoria, Purushottama (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780739104439
• ISBN10: 0739104438
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Ethics in Comparative Context
Self-Fulfillment Through Selflessness: The Moral Teachings of the Daode Jing	p. 21
Ethical Insights from Chu Hsi	p. 49
Concrete Ethics in a Comparative Perspective: Zhuangzi Meets William James	p. 67
Preparing for Something that Never Happens: The Means/Ends Problem in Modern Culture	p. 93
Ethics in Cultural Context--Variety or Relativism?
Pluralism in Practice: Incommensurability and Constraints on Change in Ethical Discourses	p. 119
The Moral Interpretation of Culture	p. 139
Ethics in a Diverse World of Conflict--Gender, Law, and Medicine
Ethics in the Female Voice: Murasaki Shikibu and the Framing of Ethics for Japan	p. 175
Human Rights Law, Religion, and the Gendered Moral Order	p. 203
The Enlightenment Paradigm of Native Right and Forged Hybridity of Cultural Rights in British India	p. 235
Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia: A Buddhist Perspective	p. 263
In Extremis: Abortion and Assisted Suicide from a Buddhist Perspective	p. 283
Good Clinical Practice? Can East Asia Accommodate Western Standards?	p. 317
Selected Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 337
About the Contributors	p. 345
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