The Nature of Buddhist Ethics by Keown, Damien - 1992

Palgrave Macmillan, 1992-06-24. Hardcover. Good. 1992 first edition Macmillan Press Ltd. (Houndmills, England), 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches tall black cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, xi, 269 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers, with bumping to the lower edge of the front cover. Otherwise, apart from a couple of instances of slight marginal soiling, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly creased dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~OO~ [2.0P] Examines ethical data from early and later sources in an attempt to understand the theoretical nature of Buddhist ethics and clarify its role. This book rejects the view that ethics are only of limited or provisional validity. Damien Keown (b. 1951) is a prominent bioethicist and authority on Buddhist bioethics.