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An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues
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An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues Hardcover - 2000

by Peter Harvey


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This systematic introduction to Buddhist ethics is aimed at anyone interested in Buddhism, including students, scholars and general readers. Peter Harvey is the author of the acclaimed Introduction to Buddhism (Cambridge, 1990), and his new book is written in a clear style, assuming no prior knowledge. At the same time it develops a careful, probing analysis of the nature and practical dynamics of Buddhist ethics in both its unifying themes and in the particularities of different Buddhist traditions. The book applies Buddhist ethics to a range of issues of contemporary concern: humanity's relationship with the rest of nature; economics; war and peace; euthanasia; abortion; the status of women; and homosexuality. Professor Harvey draws on texts of the main Buddhist traditions, and on historical and contemporary accounts of the behaviour of Buddhists, to describe existing Buddhist ethics, to assess different views within it, and to extend its application into new areas.

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Fundamental features of Buddhism's word-view relevant to ethics are the framework of karma and rebirth, accepted by all schools of Buddhism, with varying degrees of emphasis, and the Four Noble Truths, the highest teachings of early Buddhism, and of the Theravada school.

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  • Title An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues
  • Author Peter Harvey
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 500
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2000-06-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521553940 / 0521553946
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.22 x 1.19 in (23.55 x 15.80 x 3.02 cm)
  • Reading level 1390
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Library of Congress subjects Buddhist ethics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99027718
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.35
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