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 recognised in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.
| ISBN: | 9789629964962 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 2013 |
| Author: | Katrin Froese |
| Publisher: | The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy |
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 Unbound features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy
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Ethics Unbound was written by Katrin Froese and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Ethics Unbound has 250 pages
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