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Ethics Unbound : Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality /

This book closely examines texts from Chinese and Western traditions that hold up ethics as the inviolable ground of human existence, as well as those that regard ethics with suspicion. The negative notion of morality contends that because ethics cannot be divorced from questions of belonging and id...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Froese, Katrin, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The esteem of ethics
  • Taking a stand : the moral philosophy of Confucius and Kant
  • Organic virtue : reading Mencius with Rousseau
  • Part II. Vices of virtue
  • Strangers to ethics : Kierkegaard and Daoist approaches
  • Beyond good and evil : flexible ethics in Nietzsche and Daoist thought
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.