Reason and Insight: Western and Eastern Perspectives on the Pursuit of Moral Wisdom - Softcover

Shanahan, Timothy; Wang, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534505996 ISBN 13: 9780534505998

Verlag: WADSWORTH INC FULFILLMENT, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The aim of REASON AND INSIGHT is twofold: first, to provide a comprehensive, multicultural introduction to ethics that includes substantial selections from the main Western and Eastern philosophies and religious traditions, and second, to enable students to explore how these perspectives are applied to a range of contemporary moral problems. Beginning with an engaging, accessible introduction to fundamental metaethical issues, the text then delves into particular ethical theories from both the Western and Eastern traditions. Finally, the relevance of these more abstract concerns is made more concrete in the concluding section that presents current scholarship devoted to applying these theories to pressing moral concerns with which students will be familiar. With REASON AND INSIGHT, students are exposed, in a single text, to all of the most important Western and Eastern moral theories and thereby are encouraged to reexamine critically their own moral perspectives in light of many other historically and/or culturally remote standpoints.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WADSWORTH INC FULFILLMENT
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0534505996
• ISBN 13: 9780534505998
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 520
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