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Compassion and moral guidance /

Compassion is a word we use frequently - but rarely precisely. One reason we lack a philosophically precise understanding of compassion is that moral philosophers give it virtually no attention. Indeed, in the predominant ethical traditions of the West (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics),...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bein, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Series:Monograph ... of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 23.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.