Striking a balance : a primer in traditional Asian values /
Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values offers a lucid, thoughtful, and thoroughly engaging review of the major ethical teachings in the dominant Asian traditions. Michael C. Brannigan applies his extensive background and scholarship to craft a concise yet comprehensive introduction...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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Edición: | Rev. ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Hindu ethics
- Life's four stages
- Life's four goals
- Paths to Enlightenment
- Karma and rebirth
- Shades of Dharma
- Buddhist ethics
- The middle path
- The four noble truths
- In the wake of karma
- The four supreme virtues
- What is a Buddhist social ethic?
- Zen Buddhist ethics
- A way of the monk : practice is attainment
- A way of the warrior
- A way of tea : the virtue of presence
- Taoist ethics
- Cultivating the Tao
- The art of yielding : Wu-wei
- Spontaneity as awareness
- Fasting of the mind
- Confucian ethics
- Lessons from the analects
- Human nature : is it essentially good or corrupt?
- Seeking the right balance in neo-Confucianism
- A return to Ako : Japanese neo-Confucianism
- Capitalism and human rights.