Ethical Questions

Bina Gupta is professor of philosophy and director of the South Asia Studies Area and Language Center at the University of Missouri, and co-editor with J. N. Mohanty of Philosophical Questions: East and West (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

• Chapter 1 General IntroductionPart 2 Who Am I?Chapter 3 1.IntroductionChapter 4 Chandogya Upanishad, The Nature of the SelfChapter 5 Katha Upanisad, "Nachiketas and Death"Chapter 6 Plato, The Allegory of the Cave.Chapter 7 Thomas Hobbes, Egoism and Human NatureChapter 8 Mencius, Human NatureChapter 9 Simone de Beauvoir, Women as the Second SexChapter 10 Gautama Buddha, "King Milinda and Nagasena on Annatta"Part 11 III. What Ought I to Do?Chapter 12 IntroductionChapter 13 The Bible, "The Ten Commandments"Chapter 14 Immanuel Kant, The Categorical ImperativeChapter 15 John Stuart Mill, UtilitarianismChapter 16 Mo Tzu, "Universal Love"Chapter 17 The Mahabharata, Precepts for LifeChapter 18 The Bhagavad Gita, Duty in the GitaChapter 19 Edward Conze, "The Five Buddhist Precepts" and the Rules of Monastic RestraintPart 20 What Kind of Person Ought I to Be?Chapter 21 IntroductionChapter 22 Aristotle, Virtue EthicsChapter 23 Gautama Buddha, The Teachings of the BuddhaChapter 24 Gautama Buddha, The Five Cardinal VirtuesChapter 25 Confucius, The Teachings of ConfuciusChapter 26 Bhagavad Gita, Virtues in the GitaChapter 27 Alasdair MacIntyre, "The Nature of the Virtues"Part 28 Religion and Morality, Freedom, and Just SocietyChapter 29 IntroductionChapter 30 Is Religion the Source of Morality?Chapter 31 Emile Brunner, The Divine ImperativeChapter 32 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Religion and MoralityChapter 33 Herbert Fingarette, Human Community as Holy RiteChapter 34 Are We Free?Chapter 35 St. Augustine, Evil, Providence, Foreknowledge, and Free WillChapter 36 Aristotle, Continence and IncontinenceChapter 37 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Karma and FreedomChapter 38 Edward Conze, Emancipation and NirvanaChapter 39 Lao-tzu, Tao Te ChingPart 40 What is a Just Society?Chapter 41 Mahatma Gandhi, Swaraj—Freedom and Self-RuleChapter 42 2. John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness"

Bina Gupta's new book of readings, Ethical Questions: East and West, is a welcome addition to the literature in comparative philosophy. Professor Gupta breaks interesting philosophical ground with this text of well-chosen and highly readable classics drawn from the world's ethical literature.