TY  - BOOK
AU  - Froese,Katrin
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ethics unbound: some Chinese and Western perspectives on morality 
SN  - 9789629969189
AV  - BJ117 .F764 2013
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Western countries
KW  - China
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-244) and index; Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The esteem of ethics -- Taking a stand : the moral philosophy of Confucius and Kant -- Organic virtue : reading Mencius with Rousseau -- Part II. Vices of virtue -- Strangers to ethics : Kierkegaard and Daoist approaches -- Beyond good and evil : flexible ethics in Nietzsche and Daoist thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789629969189/
ER  -