Comparative Ethics in Hindu and Buddhist Traditions
Hindrey, Roderick
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Book ID : 4059
ISBN-10 : 81-208-0866-5 / 8120808665
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-0866-9 / 9788120808669
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2017
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
xvi, 307p., Tables, App., Bib., Index, 23 cm. (First Edition pub. in 1978, Delhi) (Second Revised Edition pub. in 1996, Delhi)
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DESCRIPTION
The exploratory volume in the new field of comparative ethics serves the diverse goals of groups variously interested in International law and morality, in comparative religious ethical ideals, or simply in cross-cultural literature and drama. The author draws moral ideals from primary Hindu sources--popular and formal, literary and spiritual. The same method is applied for Buddhist moral texts. Introducing method in comparative ethics with a synopsis of Hindu mystical tradition, the author diiscusses in detail ethics in the Rgveda, Upaniisads, Laws of Manu, Ramayana, Gita, other popular classics, poetry, drama, philosophers, and reformers. After summarizing pluralism in Hindu ethiics, the author sketches ethical thought in Mahayana Buddhiist texts.