The Nature of Buddhist Ethics [electronic resource] / by Damien Keown.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781349220922
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/27435
Yazar
Keown, Damien.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1992.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 269 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
In this book the author considers data from both early and later schools of Buddhism in an attempt to provide an overall characterization of the structure of Buddhist ethics. The importance of ethics in the Buddha's teachings is widely acknowledged, but the pursuit of ethical ideals has up to now been widely held to be secondary to the attainment of knowledge. Drawing on the Aristotelian tradition of ethics the author argues against this intellectualization of Buddhism and in favour of a new understanding of the tradition in terms of which ethics plays an absolutely central role. In the course of this reassessment many basic concepts such as karma, nirvana, and the Eightfold Path, are reviewed and presented in a fresh light. The book will be of interest to readers with a background in either Buddhist studies or comparative religious ethics.
Konu
Ethics.
Buddhism.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Buddhism.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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