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Compassion and moral guidance / Steve Bein.

By: Series: Monograph ... of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 23.Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824837211
  • 0824837215
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Compassion and moral guidance.DDC classification:
  • 177/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1475 .B45 2013eb
Other classification:
  • 08.10
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Contents:
What is compassion, and what is it not? -- What is the com- of compassion? -- Defining compassion -- Objections to an ethic of compassion -- Compassion in action.
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Summary: "Compassion is a word we use frequently but rarely precisely. One reason we lack a philosophically precise understanding of compassion is that moral philosophers today give it virtually no attention. Indeed, in the predominant ethical traditions of the West (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics), compassion tends to be either passed over without remark or explicitly dismissed as irrelevant. And yet in the predominant ethical traditions of Asia, compassion is centrally important: All else revolves around it. This is clearly the case in Buddhist ethics, and compassion plays a similarly indispensable role in Confucian and Daoist ethics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.

What is compassion, and what is it not? -- What is the com- of compassion? -- Defining compassion -- Objections to an ethic of compassion -- Compassion in action.

"Compassion is a word we use frequently but rarely precisely. One reason we lack a philosophically precise understanding of compassion is that moral philosophers today give it virtually no attention. Indeed, in the predominant ethical traditions of the West (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics), compassion tends to be either passed over without remark or explicitly dismissed as irrelevant. And yet in the predominant ethical traditions of Asia, compassion is centrally important: All else revolves around it. This is clearly the case in Buddhist ethics, and compassion plays a similarly indispensable role in Confucian and Daoist ethics.

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