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    Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
    Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
    Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
    Audiobook3 hours

    Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

    Written by Damien Keown

    Narrated by James Anderson Foster

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    With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs.

    For complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West. In this Very Short Introduction, Damien Keown explores how Buddhism approaches a range of moral issues of our age, including our relationship with our environment, our treatment of animals, and our stance on abortion, on sexuality and gender, on violence and war. This new edition also includes a discussion of the ethical challenges posed by cutting-edge developments in science and biomedical technologies, including neuroscience, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and gene editing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 1, 2020
    ISBN9781705206966
    Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
    Author

    Damien Keown

    Damien Keown is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests centre on the study of contemporary moral problems from a Buddhist perspective. He is co-founder of The Journal of Buddhist Ethics and the author of the best-selling 'Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction' and 'Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction', both from Oxford University Press.

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