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Book cover image of Conscience Across Borders:: An Ethics of Global Rights and Religious Pluralism. by Vernon Ruland

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)

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Author Biography: Vernon Ruland

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Prologue
1Anatomy of a Sound Moral Choice1
Case Study: The Gunman and the Informer5
2Religious and Moral Faultlines16
Case Study: The Dissenting Conscience17
Roots of Breakup23
A Sound Religious Ethics and Its Counterfeits34
3An Earth-Centered Ethics44
Analytic Reason and Its Aftermath46
Primal Wisdom of the Land50
An Asian Wisdom of Interconnecting56
4A God-Centered Ecology68
Greening of Abraham's Legacy68
God within the World73
A Comprehensive Social Ecology81
5Human Rights - The Human Minimum92
Rise of International Human Rights94
Rights at Home - A Primal Critique98
Rights Abroad - A Neo-Confucian Critique106
6Human Rights and Religious Pluralism116
Voices of Moral Relativism118
Beyond Set Religious Borders127
Prophets of Postmodernity134
7An Ethics of Virtue, Character, and Story145
Virtues of Tomorrow146
A Social Character Legacy152
Stories at the Heart of Things160
Endnotes170
Bibliography185
Index194

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