Dilemmas of Life and Death

Hindu Ethics in a North American Context

S. Cromwell Crawford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

233 Seiten

1994
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-2165-9 (ISBN)

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This is a breakthrough work expanding the debate of the dilemmas of life and death in contemporary American society by carrying it beyond the insights of Western religious and philosophic thought to include ethical perspectives of the Hindu tradition.

The topics covered are the timely ethical issues that concern both Americans and all people of the world - abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and the environment. A lively East-West dialogue probes the roots of each issue in its native setting, and the fruit of this historical approach is a clear-cut analysis of up-to-date cases, giving their current status in terms of ethics, religion, philosophy, medicine, and law. Unlike traditional textbooks that concentrate on a theoretical analysis to the exclusion of practical issues, this book does justice to both theoretical and practical ethics.

At the University of Hawaii, S. Cromwell Crawford is Professor of Comparative Religions and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Ethics of Abortion

2. The Ethics of Suicide

3. The Ethics of Euthanasia

4. The Ethics of the Environment

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.1994
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-7914-2165-1 / 0791421651
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-2165-9 / 9780791421659
Zustand	Neuware