Authors: Vernon Ruland, Rembert Weakland
ISBN-13: 9780966405927, ISBN-10: 0966405927
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The University of San Francisco Press
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Conscience Across Borders aims to map a middle course between an ethics of over-confident deductive reasoning, and an ethics of relativism that treats moral choices as mostly idiosyncratic preferences. It dismantles all rationales for domineering - including one religious Way by another, the voiceless poor by the rich, society by the nation-state, individuals by civil and religious bureaucracies, women by men, the young by their elders, or the natural world by human beings.
Foreword | ||
Prologue | ||
1 | Anatomy of a Sound Moral Choice | 1 |
Case Study: The Gunman and the Informer | 5 | |
2 | Religious and Moral Faultlines | 16 |
Case Study: The Dissenting Conscience | 17 | |
Roots of Breakup | 23 | |
A Sound Religious Ethics and Its Counterfeits | 34 | |
3 | An Earth-Centered Ethics | 44 |
Analytic Reason and Its Aftermath | 46 | |
Primal Wisdom of the Land | 50 | |
An Asian Wisdom of Interconnecting | 56 | |
4 | A God-Centered Ecology | 68 |
Greening of Abraham's Legacy | 68 | |
God within the World | 73 | |
A Comprehensive Social Ecology | 81 | |
5 | Human Rights - The Human Minimum | 92 |
Rise of International Human Rights | 94 | |
Rights at Home - A Primal Critique | 98 | |
Rights Abroad - A Neo-Confucian Critique | 106 | |
6 | Human Rights and Religious Pluralism | 116 |
Voices of Moral Relativism | 118 | |
Beyond Set Religious Borders | 127 | |
Prophets of Postmodernity | 134 | |
7 | An Ethics of Virtue, Character, and Story | 145 |
Virtues of Tomorrow | 146 | |
A Social Character Legacy | 152 | |
Stories at the Heart of Things | 160 | |
Endnotes | 170 | |
Bibliography | 185 | |
Index | 194 |