TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bein,Steve
TI  - Compassion and moral guidance
T2  - Monograph / Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
SN  - 9780824837211
AV  - BJ1475 .B45 2013eb
U1  - 177/.7 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
KW  - Compassion
KW  - Ethics, Comparative
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Interpersonal Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Eastern
KW  - fast
KW  - Mitgefühl
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - "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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