Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values

Brannigan, Michael C.

ISBN 10: 0739138456 / ISBN 13: 9780739138458

Published by Lexington Books, 2009

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Title: Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional ...

Publisher: Lexington Books

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

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Synopsis:

Striking a Balance offers a lucid, thoughtful, and thoroughly engaging review of the major ethical teachings in the dominant Asian traditions. Michael C. Brannigan applies his extensive background and scholarship to craft a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Asian ethics covering the long-standing traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Review:

Brannigan's style is clear and engaging.... Recommended.--D.A. Haney "CHOICE, June 2010 "

Striking a Balance is an unusual, well-written introduction to Asian Thought. In addition to clear, lucid explication of primary concepts, Professor Brannigan provides insightful and philosophically sensitive retelling of a host of stories drawn from classical sources in Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism and Confucianism. In the process he invites the reader to explore the ethical values woven into these traditions, to get to know the people whose lives have been shaped by those values, and to reflect on a range of similarities as well as differences between Eastern and Western cultures.--Douglas W. Shrader, State University of New York at Oneonta

Increasingly, Americans are asking whether daunting social problems, from failing schools to violent crime, might be rooted in faulty ethical values-values that place an exaggerated emphasis on individual self-assertion over the goods of family and community. In this readable, deeply informed book, Brannigan explores a variety of non-Western ethical traditions that strike a healthier balance between individual and communal goods.--Gregory Bassham, King's College