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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Froese, Katrin, 1970- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.