General & Miscellaneous Religion, Philosophy, Religious, Buddhism, Asian Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Overview
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.Editorials
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A curiously apt typo in the preface refers to Buddhism as the "daring" rather than the "darling" of many Chinese<-->apt in that foreign Buddhist thought breached the seemingly impregnable, incompatible ideological great walls of Confucianism and Taoism. An, a philosophy instructor in Korea, undertakes her comparative analysis<-->revealing parallels between early Buddhist and classical Confucian ethics<-->by re- defining the keystone virtue of self-transformation. Includes a Chinese glossary and decent bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, 1998.
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820438016