Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Origins of Ethical Thought written by Seizo Sekine and published by Sheed & Ward. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another. An innovative work of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book focuses on the plurality of perspectives between and within the respective ethical systems. Without overdrawing comparisons, the author engages selected primary and secondary texts and highlights the traits that distinguish the two fields while revealing the commonalities underlying ancient Hebraic and Hellenistic concepts of the self in relation to the "other," whether on the human or super-human level. He reveals that both ethical systems are based on a sense of "wonder," which, he argues, can and should be rehabilitated as a foundation for a new ethics that is in touch with the transcendent and metaphysical. Moreover, writing from a Japanese frame of reference, the author incorporates important insights by Eastern thinkers that are often overlooked in the West. Well conceived and logically presented, The Origins of Ethical Thought covers the practical philosophy of the ancient Greeks from the Presocratics through Aristotle, the religious ethics of the Ancient Hebrews from the Ten Commandments to the Wisdom literature, and the consequences of Greek and Hebrew ethics from philosophical ideas of love and righteousness to religious notions of retribution and atonement.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas written by Charles P. Nemeth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these two figures may be the most compatible brothers in ideas ever conceived in the theory of natural law. Looking to find common threads that run between the philosophies of these two great thinkers of the Classical and Medieval periods, this book aims to determine whether or not there exists a common ground whereby ethical debates and dilemmas can be evaluated. Does comparison between Cicero and Aquinas offer a new pathway for moral measure, based on defined and developed principles? Do they deliver certain moral and ethical principles for human life to which each agree? Instead of a polemical diatribe, comparison between Cicero and Aquinas may edify a method of compromise and afford a more or less restrictive series of judgements about ethical quandaries.
Download or read book Ethics of Compassion written by Richard Reilly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics of Compassion places central themes from Buddhist (primarily) and Christian moral teachings within the conceptual framework of Western normative ethics. What results is a viable alternative ethical theory to those offered by utilitarians, Kantian formalists, proponents of the natural law tradition, and advocates of virtue ethics. Ethics of Compassion bridges Eastern and Western cultures, philosophical ethics and religious moral discourse, and notions of acting rightly and of being virtuous. This book will be of interest to anyone who has been introduced to the discipline of ethics. It will be useful for undergraduate courses in philosophical and religious ethics.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory written by David Copp and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and the second part normative ethical theory. As with all the Oxford Handbooks, the collection is designed to achieve three goals: exposition of central ideas, criticism of other approaches, and defenses of distinct points of view.
Download or read book Confucian Ethics written by Kwong-Loi Shun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.
Download or read book A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics written by John Braisted Carman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organised by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored. Specialists in the history and literature of religions and comparative religion will find this bibliography a valuable research tool.
Download or read book Nicomachean Ethics written by Aristotle and published by SDE Classics. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional Ethics and Contemporary Society of China written by Guojie Luo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the ethical thinking of the pre-Qin Dynasty, this book discusses the formation and development of traditional Chinese ethics, the refinement of the Confucian ethical normative system and the establishment of its orthodoxy, as well as the deepening and maturation of feudal ethics. The book is simple in style and clear in context. It contains not only the essence of traditional Chinese morality but also the achievements of modern civilization. It analyzes the implications of traditional Chinese ethics on the governance and moral construction of modern society and can be used as a reference for governance and revitalization of the country and moral development.
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliography of Social Science Periodicals and Monograph Series Japan written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Social Science Periodicals and Monograph Series written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Religious Ethics written by Christine E. Gudorf and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other texts, Gudorfs work focuses on common, everyday issuesincluding food and diet, work, sex and marriage, proper dress, anger and violence, charity, family, and infirmity and the elderlywhile drawing out ethical implications of each and demonstrating how different religious traditions prescribe rules for action. An introductory chapter reviews standard ethical theory and core elements of comparative religious analysis. Each chapter opens with a riveting real-life case and shows how religious ethics can shed light on how to handle the larger issues, without determining for the reader what a proper ethical response might be.
Download or read book History of Political Thought written by R.S. Chaurasia and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Of Political Thought Covers Detailed Study Of Socialism And Democratic Socialism With All Its Forms Such As Fabian Socialism And Symbilcalism. Communism Based On Marxist Thinking Has Been Re-Interperted, Moulded And Amended By Lenin And Stalin In Russia And By Mao-Tse-Tung In China. Ideas Of These Thinkers Have Been Presented In This Book In A Very Simple And Lucid Language. Impact Of Anarchism, Fascism And Pluralism In Russia, Italy And Germany And Britain, Including Its Colonial Empire, Has Been Very Well Explained.Opinions Of Modern Thinkers Like Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole And Bertrand Russell About New Political Traditions In The West Have Also Been Given In Brief.After Independence, Due To Great Impact Of Indian Political Thought All Over The World Including Indian Polity And Its People, Ideas Of Mahatma Gandhi, Sarvoyadaya And Of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Have Been Described In This Book In A Comprehensive Manner.The Book Deals With Conflicting Political Ideas But Author Has Made An Attempt To Describe These Ideas With Objective Outlook In Easiest Possible Manner, In Order To Make It Useful To Students As Well As To Common Reader.
Download or read book Muslim Ethics and Modernity written by Sheila McDonough and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of modern Muslim ethics, focussed upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this monograph sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an acculturationist, represents the "liberal" trend of Sunni Muslim ethics. Khan's approach borrows much from reason, yet for Khanreason and revelation are not in conflict. Reason guides the interpretation of Islam when revelation is insufficient. In contrast, Mawlana Mawdudi's fundamentalism is, at least in part, anti-rational; it depends upon revelation (as it comes to one man in particular) and is very autocratic. McDonough is concerned with Khan and Mawdudi, both writers within the Indo-Pakistan Muslim tradition. Their conflicting views, their differing interpretations of ethics that suit Islam in the contemporary world, exemplify the difficulties and turmoil faced by Muslims the world over. For these men, modernity has not spelled the end of Islam; yet each has found a different way of relating Islam to the present and the future in faithfulness to traditional Islam. This monograph will be of interest to students of contemporary Islam, as well as to those interested in questions of comparative ethics, for the liberal/fundamentalist conflicts outlined in this monograph are analogous to manifestations of the same dichotomy in all world religions.
Download or read book Origins of the Just War written by Rory Cox and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As two of the fundamental social forces that shape human life - war posing the greatest existential threat to communities, and justice being the principle that makes complex communal life possible in the first place - the relationship between war and justice is crucial to understanding the development of Western civilization. The central argument of this book is that theories of justified violence were not created ex nihilo as exercises in abstract ethical reasoning, but rather emerged as a result of communities responding to the reality of war. Communities developed concepts of normative warfare from a desire to legitimate and to control armed conflicts in which they consistently engaged. Scholars have repeatedly overlooked the very simple fact that war predates just war doctrine, and that early archaeological and textual evidence indicates that ancient societies were more inclined to glorify warfare than to condemn it. It is the contention of this study, therefore, that the presumption of war is the essential characteristic and common denominator of the just war tradition. Underscored by this compelling thesis, the book will demonstrate that, over the course of three millennia, Western societies displayed a remarkable degree of affinity in their attitudes to the relationship between war and justice"--
