Ethics unbound : Chinese and Western perspectives on morality / Katrin Froese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Froese, Katrin, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Ethics--China.

Ethics--Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 249 pages).)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Esteem of Ethics

ch. One Taking a Stand: The Moral Philosophy of Confucius and Kant

ch. Two Organic Virtue: Reading Mencius with Rousseau

pt. II Vices of Virtue

ch. Three Strangers to Ethics: Kierkegaard and Daoist Approaches

ch. Four Beyond Good and Evil: Flexible Ethics in Nietzsche and Daoist Thought.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-244) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789629969189

9629969181

OCLC:

867742002