Ethics Unbound : Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

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Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 264
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 identity, there is a danger that it can be nudged into the domain of the unethical, since ethical virtues can become properties to be possessed with which the recognition of others is solicited. Ethics thus fosters the very egoism it hopes to transcend, and risks excluding the unfamiliar and the stranger. The author argues inspirationally that the unethical underbelly of ethics must be recognized in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.

✦ Subjects

Ethics. ; Ethics-China. ; Ethics-Western countries.

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