TY - BOOK ID - 127173131 TI - Compassion and moral guidance PY - 2013 SN - 9780824836412 0824836413 0824837215 0824871405 PB - Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, DB - UniCat KW - Compassion. KW - Ethics, Comparative. KW - Self (Philosophy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127173131 AB - Compassion is a word we use frequently but rarely precisely. One reason we lack a philosophically precise understanding of compassion is that moral philosophers today give it virtually no attention. Indeed, in the predominant ethical traditions of the West (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics), compassion tends to be either passed over without remark or explicitly dismissed as irrelevant. And yet in the predominant ethical traditions of Asia, compassion is centrally important: All else revolves around it. This is clearly the case in Buddhist ethics, and compassion plays a similarly indispensable role in Confucian and Daoist ethics.In Compassion and Moral Guidance, Steve Bein seeks to explain why compassion plays such a substantial role in the moral philosophies of East Asia and an insignificant one in those of Europe and the West. ER -