Ethics unbound : some Chinese and Western perspectives on morality / Katrin Froese.
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TextPublisher: Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2013]Description: xiv, 249 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789629964962; 9789629969189Subject(s): Ethics -- China | Ethics -- Western countries | Ethics| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-244) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The esteem of ethics -- Taking a stand : the moral philosophy of Confucius and Kant -- Organic virtue : reading Mencius with Rousseau -- Part II. Vices of virtue -- Strangers to ethics : Kierkegaard and Daoist approaches -- Beyond good and evil : flexible ethics in Nietzsche and Daoist thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.