Confucianism, Buddhism, and Virtue Ethics
Are Confucian and Buddhist ethical views closer to Kantian, Consequentialist, or Virtue Ethical ones? How can such comparisons shed light on the unique aspects of Confucian and Buddhist views? Oriented by these questions, this essay tackles three tasks: provides a historically grounded framework for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2016]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 187-214 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Virtue ethics
/ Confucianism
/ Buddhism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BL Buddhism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism |
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| Summary: | Are Confucian and Buddhist ethical views closer to Kantian, Consequentialist, or Virtue Ethical ones? How can such comparisons shed light on the unique aspects of Confucian and Buddhist views? Oriented by these questions, this essay tackles three tasks: provides a historically grounded framework for distinguishing western ethical theories, identifies a series of questions that we can ask in order to clarify the philosophic accounts of ethical motivation embedded in the Buddhist and Confucian traditions, and critiques Lee Ming-hueis claim that Confucianism is closer to Kantianism than virtue ethics and Charles Goodmans claim that Buddhism is closer to Consequentialism than Virtue Ethics. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v8i1.75 |