Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia

by Julius J. Lipner and Katherine K. Young

Book Overview

Modern Western approaches to India often have focused on metaphysics at the expense of ethics, leading many to see Hinduism as only concerned with the esoteric and the otherworldly. The chapters of this book offer case study explorations that are selected and presented to invite comparisons with the modern West. Such comparisons will help to remove the apparent otherworldly nature of Hindu thought from the minds of Western readers, as well as give...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887067646
• ISBN13: 9780887067648
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"