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An introduction to Buddhist ethics : foundations, values, and issues
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An introduction to Buddhist ethics : foundations, values, and issues

Author: Peter Harvey
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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"This systemic introduction to Buddhist ethics is aimed at anyone interested in Buddhism, including students, scholars and general readers. At the same time it develops a careful, probing analysis of the nature and practical dynamics of Buddhist ethnics both in its unifying themes and in the particularities of different Buddhist traditions. The book applies Buddhist ethics to a range of issues of contemporary  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Harvey
ISBN: 0521553946 9780521553940 0521556406 9780521556408
OCLC Number: 41621583
Description: xx, 478 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: [ch.] 1. The shared foundations of Buddhist ethics --
[ch.] 2. Key Buddhist values --
[ch.] 3. Mahāyāna emphases and adaptations --
[ch.] 4. Attitude to and treatment of the natural world --
[ch.] 5. Economic ethics --
[ch.] 6. War and peace --
[ch.] 7. Suicide and euthanasia --
[ch.] 8. Abortion and contraception --
[ch.] 9. Sexual equality --
[ch.] 10. Homosexuality and other forms of 'queerness'.
Responsibility: Peter Harvey.
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