Ethics Unbound: Some Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789629964962)

Vendor: Katrin Froese
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Format: Hardcover
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Ethics Unbound: Some Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

$45.00

Ethics Unbound: Some Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Katrin Froese
ISBN-10: 9629964961
ISBN-13: 9789629964962
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.00d

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Choice 06/01/2014
By Katrin Froese
By Katrin Froese
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Katrin Froese is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (Lexington Books, 2001) and Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths in-Between (State University of New York Press, 2006).

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