Compassion and Benevolence
Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Early Buddhist and Classical Confucian Ethics (Asian Thought and Culture, Vol. 31)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780820438016
Subjects: History Of Ethics; Oriental Philosophy; Philosophy; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Buddhism - General; Eastern; Buddhist ethics; Compassion; Confucian ethics; Ethics, Comparative; Religious aspects
Description: Compassion and Benevolence reveals the heart of early Buddhist and classical Confucian ethics in a comparative way. It explores compassion (karuna) and benevolence (jen) by analyzing their mechanisms, their moral groundworks, their applications, and their meta-ethical nature. This exploration intends to reject the popular theses: early Buddhism is only self-liberation-concerned soteriology and classical Confucianism is only society-concerned thought requiring self-effacement.