Buddhist Ethics, Damien Keown
Buddhist Ethics, Damien Keown
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Buddhist Ethics
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Damien Keown

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

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.

About Damien Keown

Damien Keown is reader in Buddhism at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books on Buddhism include Dictionary of Buddhism and Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. He is also editor of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and coeditor of the Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick

The biggest fact I've taken away from Damien Keown is that Buddhism is a lot more conservative than we realise in the West. Because Buddhism came to us via 60s hippies, it has a reputation as being an anything-goes, left-wing religion, which isn't really the case. For example, Buddhist attitudes abou......more

Goodreads review by Xinefan

The author's understanding of Buddhism is at times incomplete and his access to sources seems deficient. For example, there are many instances in ancient texts about the Buddha's past lives where he sacrificed his life for the sake of other beings (even animal beings), which the author should've tak......more