Ethical Theory in Global Perspective

Michael Hemmingsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tunghai University in Taiwan.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Philosophy and Ethical TheorySection 1: Character-Based Moral Theories 1. Feelings, Virtues, and Happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean EthicsDirk Baltzly2. ConfucianismYat-hung Leung and Yong Huang3. Virtue Ethics in Early BuddhismDamien Keown4. Communo-Welfarism: An Akan Humanistic Moral TheoryMartin Odei AjeiSection 2: Consequentialist Moral Theories 5. The Secular Hedonism of the CārvākasPradeep P. Gokhale6. UtilitarianismNicholas Drake7. Mozi and Inclusive CareMichael Hemmingsen8. Why Would a Buddha Lie? Varieties of Buddhist ConsequentialismGordon F. DavisSection 3: Deontological Moral Theories 9. Immanuel Kant and DeontologyLucas Thorpe10. Mou Zongsan and Moral FeelingWing-Cheuk Chan and Michael Hemmingsen11. ContractualismJussi Suikkanen12. Jürgen Habermas and Discourse EthicsMichael Hemmingsen13. Rossian DeontologyPhilip Stratton-LakeSection 4: Particularist, Anti-Theoretical, and Other Approaches to Morality 14. The Ethics of Daoism: The Dissolving Boundary between Right and WrongWai Wai Chiu15. Zen Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva VowRika Dunlap16. Ethical Dimensions of Advaita VedantaSandhya Pruthi17. Care Ethics: Love, Care, and ConnectionAllauren Samantha Forbes18. Yoga: Procedural Devotion to the RightShyam RanganathanContributorsIndex

"This book contributes to the field in two important ways. Firstly, it makes a strong case for a more global approach to discussions of ethical theory. This is important because of the historical neglect (at least in Western universities) of non-Western ethical theories and approaches. Secondly, it provides a largely excellent textbook to deliver a broader ethical theory course." — David Hunter, University of Adelaide