Harvey, Peter (Brian Peter) - An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics : Foundations, Values, and Issues

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2003). 3rd Printing, orig. boards. xx,478 pp, 23x15cm,. Textual photo illustrations.. Some rubbing. A small dent to front cover side edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Shared foundations of Buddhist ethics: sources of guidance to Buddhists; Rebirth and karma; The four noble truths; Philosophy of action; Key Buddhist values; giving; Keeping the lay precepts; Monastic values; Ethics of inter-personal relationships; Loving kindness and compassion; Social ethics; Mahayana emphases and adaptations: the path of the Bodhisattva; The ethics of the Bodhisattva; Skilful means and overriding precepts; Specific strands of Mahayana thought and practice; Mahayana reassessment of monasticism; Attitude to and treatment of the natural world; Humanity's place in nature Non-harming of animals; Positive regard, and help, for animals; Plants, trees and forests; Conservation and environmentalism; Economic ethics; Lay economic ethics; The monastic economy; Buddhism and capitalism: Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' thesis; ' Buddhist economics'; Buddhism and economics in the modern world; War and peace; Buddhist analyses of the causes of conflict Solutions to conflict; Non-violent reflections on a violent world; The position of the soldier; Buddhist 'justifications' of and involvement in, violence Buddhist action for peace in the modern world: Suicide and euthanasia: considerations and arguments against suicide; Suicide and the precepts Euthanasia: Abortion and contraception; Embryonic life; Abortion and Buddhist principles; Contraception; Abortion in Buddhist cultures; Anti-abortion but pro-choice?: the relationship between morality and law; The status of women: women in early Hinduism; the effect of Buddhism...