Ethical Theory in Global Perspective provides an easy-to-teach introduction to ethical theory from a uniquely global perspective. In addition to key Western ethical theories—such as virtue ethics, consequentialism, various deontological theories, and care ethics—moral theories from a range of East Asian, South Asian, and African philosophical traditions and schools are also discussed, including Akan philosophy, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and both orthodox and heterodox schools of classical Indian philosophy. In short, this book is a key resource for educators who want to diversify their ethical theory curricula but are not sure how, as well as those currently teaching comparative ethics looking for a single textbook that covers a range of philosophical traditions in a clear, approachable way.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Global Philosophy and Ethical Theory
Section 1: Character-Based Moral Theories
1. Feelings, Virtues, and Happiness in Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics
Dirk Baltzly
2. Confucianism
Yat-hung Leung and Yong Huang
3. Virtue Ethics in Early Buddhism
Damien Keown
4. Communo-Welfarism: An Akan Humanistic Moral Theory
Martin Odei Ajei
Section 2: Consequentialist Moral Theories
5. The Secular Hedonism of the Cārvākas
Pradeep P. Gokhale
6. Utilitarianism
Nicholas Drake
7. Mozi and Inclusive Care
Michael Hemmingsen
8. Why Would a Buddha Lie? Varieties of Buddhist Consequentialism
Gordon F. Davis
Section 3: Deontological Moral Theories
9. Immanuel Kant and Deontology
Lucas Thorpe
10. Mou Zongsan and Moral Feeling
Wing-Cheuk Chan and Michael Hemmingsen
11. Contractualism
Jussi Suikkanen
12. Jürgen Habermas and Discourse Ethics
Michael Hemmingsen
13. Rossian Deontology
Philip Stratton-Lake
Section 4: Particularist, Anti-Theoretical, and Other Approaches to Morality
14. The Ethics of Daoism: The Dissolving Boundary between Right and Wrong
Wai Wai Chiu
15. Zen Buddhist Ethics and the
Bodhisattva Vow
Rika Dunlap
16. Ethical Dimensions of Advaita Vedanta
Sandhya Pruthi
17. Care Ethics: Love, Care, and Connection
Allauren Samantha Forbes
18. Yoga: Procedural Devotion to the Right
Shyam Ranganathan
Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Michael Hemmingsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tunghai University in Taiwan.
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