| Compassion and Benevolence: A Comparative Study of Early Buddhist and Classical Confucian Ethics Contributor(s): An, Ok-Sun (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820438014 ISBN-13: 9780820438016 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 294.35 |
| LCCN: 97005219 |
| Series: Asian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Compassion and benevolence are taken as self-transformative virtues on the way to becoming an enlightened one and a sage. 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. |