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Compassion and Moral Guidance / Steve Bein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative PhilosophyPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 3 illusContent type:
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  • 9780824836412
  • 9780824837211
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BJ1475
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations Of Works Cited -- Introduction -- Chapter One: What Is Compassion, And What Is It Not? -- Chapter Two: What Is The Com- Of Compassion? -- Chapter Three: Defining Compassion -- Chapter Four: Objections To An Ethic Of Compassion -- Chapter Five: Compassion In Action -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index
Summary: 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.In Compassion and Moral Guidance, Steve Bein seeks to explain why compassion plays such a substantial role in the moral philosophies of East Asia and an insignificant one in those of Europe and the West. The book opens with detailed surveys of compassion's position in the philosophical works of both traditions. The surveys culminate in an analysis of the conceptions of self and why the differences between these conceptions serve either to celebrate or marginalize the importance of compassion.Bein moves on to develop a model for the ethics of compassion, including a chapter on applied ethics seen from the perspective of the ethics of compassion. The result is a new approach to ethics, one that addresses the Rawlsian and Kantian concern for fairness, the utilitarian concern for satisfactory consequences, and the concern in care ethics for the proper treatment of marginalized groups. Bein argues that compassion's capacity to address all of these makes it a primary tool for ethical decision-making.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations Of Works Cited -- Introduction -- Chapter One: What Is Compassion, And What Is It Not? -- Chapter Two: What Is The Com- Of Compassion? -- Chapter Three: Defining Compassion -- Chapter Four: Objections To An Ethic Of Compassion -- Chapter Five: Compassion In Action -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index

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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.In Compassion and Moral Guidance, Steve Bein seeks to explain why compassion plays such a substantial role in the moral philosophies of East Asia and an insignificant one in those of Europe and the West. The book opens with detailed surveys of compassion's position in the philosophical works of both traditions. The surveys culminate in an analysis of the conceptions of self and why the differences between these conceptions serve either to celebrate or marginalize the importance of compassion.Bein moves on to develop a model for the ethics of compassion, including a chapter on applied ethics seen from the perspective of the ethics of compassion. The result is a new approach to ethics, one that addresses the Rawlsian and Kantian concern for fairness, the utilitarian concern for satisfactory consequences, and the concern in care ethics for the proper treatment of marginalized groups. Bein argues that compassion's capacity to address all of these makes it a primary tool for ethical decision-making.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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