James Tiles

Moral Measures (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Ethics West and East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What basis do we have for condemning the Aztec custom of human sacrifice, the Chinese tradition of foot-binding, or the African practice of female genital mutilation? What can we learn from the moral traditions of other cultures? Addressing such questions, "Moral" "Measures" is a clear, fresh and accessible introduction to ethics which carefully illuminates the difficult issues surrounding cross-cultural ethics and moral thought. By examining Eastern and Western moral traditions, J. E. Tiles explores the basis for determining ethical measures of conduct across different cultures. Drawing on a rich array of ethical thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant and Confucius, Tiles argues that ethical problems are shared by apparently opposed moral traditions and that there is much to be learned by comparing them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134590346
• Artikelnr.: 47887018

Autorenporträt

Jim Tiles is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at M noa. He is the author of Dewey (1988), also published by Routledge and the co-author of An Introduction to Historical Epistemology (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

1 The field of ethics-a preliminary Survey 2 Concrete moralities 3 Sources
of validity 4 Conflict and the search for standards 5 Man as the measure 6
Law as measure 7 The measure of law 8 The qualities of exemplary persons 9
The end as a standard 10 Pleasure as the measure 11 The self as a problem
12 Conclusion: Measures that fall short?