Ethics Unbound

Name: Ethics Unbound
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ISBN: 978-962-996-496-2

Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

Katrin Froese

English , 2013/05 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Tags: Philosophy

229 x 152 mm , 250pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-962-996-496-2

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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.

KATRIN FROESE is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths In-Between (2006) and Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality (2002).

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Ethics Unbound

Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality

Katrin Froese

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