An edition of Compassion and Benevolence (1997)

Compassion and Benevolence

A Comparative Study of Early Buddhist and Classical Confucian Ethics (Asian Thought and Culture, Vol. 31)

By Ok-Sun An

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Publish Date

June 1998

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing,Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter

Language

eng

Pages

180

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. 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.

subjects: Benevolence, Buddhism, Buddhist ethics, Comparative Ethics, Compassion, Confucian ethics, Ethics, Comparative, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Compassion, Confucianism, Compassion--religious aspects--buddhism, Bj69 .a5 1998, 294.3/5