Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American ContextThis 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. |
Contents
The Ethics of Abortion | 11 |
The Ethics of Suicide | 37 |
The Ethics of Euthanasia | 79 |
The Ethics of the Environment | 131 |
NOTES | 203 |
GLOSSARY | 221 |
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Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context S. Cromwell Crawford Limited preview - 1994 |
Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context S. Cromwell Crawford Limited preview - 1995 |
Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in North American Context S. Cromwell Crawford No preview available - 1995 |
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