Introduction to Religious Ethics

Author: Chen Linshu
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Religious ethics is a vast theoretical system, and this book can only focus on some of its basic theories, providing a systematic yet concise discussion. The common point of religious ethics is that it is based on faith and aims to promote good and eliminate evil. However, different religions interpret their own ethics differently, even with significant differences, which is shaped by their distinct historical development processes. Broadly speaking, they can be categorized into the following types: the survival ethics of primitive religion, the legal ethics of Judaism, the behavioral ethics of Hinduism, the liberation ethics of traditional Buddhism, the behavioral ethics of Hinduism, the liberation ethics of traditional Buddhism, the redemption ethics of Christianity, the life ethics of Taoism, the canonical ethics of Islam, and the political-religious ethics of State Shinto, among others. Whether it is moral ethics, situational ethics, Humanistic Buddhism, the Great Harmony of the World, or universal religious ethics, they all reflect the secularization trend of contemporary religious ethics.