In this Book
- Ethics Unbound: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

summary
This book closely examines texts from Chinese and Western traditions that hold up ethics as the inviolable ground of human existence, as well as those that regard ethics with suspicion. The negative notion of morality contends that because ethics cannot be divorced from questions of belonging and identity, there is a danger that it can be nudged into the domain of the unethical, since ethical virtues can become properties to be possessed with which the recognition of others is solicited. Ethics thus fosters the very egoism it hopes to transcend, and risks excluding the unfamiliar and the stranger. The author argues inspirationally that the unethical underbelly of ethics must be recognized in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.
Table of Contents

- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-6
- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part I: The Esteem of Ethics
- pp. 15-16
- Part II: Vices of Virtue
- pp. 97-98
- Conclusion
- pp. 227-236
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-244
Additional Information
ISBN
9789629969189
Related ISBN(s)
9789629964962
MARC Record
OCLC
867742002
Pages
250
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-09
Language
English
Open Access
No