| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on References and Buddhist Terms -- 1 Introduction: Virtue Ethics and Environmental Ethics -- Two tendencies -- Environmental ethics -- Virtue ethics -- Overview -- 2 Virtues and Environment in Western Thought -- Ancient virtues -- Christianity and beyond -- Virtue and nature -- A short history of environmental ethics -- Environmentalism and the neglect of virtue -- 3 Buddhism and Ethics -- Context -- The central teachings -- Sīla -- The place of ethics -- The Mahāyāna -- 4 Buddhist Virtues -- Eudaimonia and Buddhist felicity -- Buddhism as a virtue ethics -- Comparisons and contrasts -- Buddhist virtues (1): humility, self-mastery and equanimity -- Buddhist virtues (2): solicitude, non-violence and 'responsibleness' -- 5 Buddhism, Virtue and Environment -- Taking stock -- Nature, humanity and holism -- Environmental virtues (1): self-transformation and nature -- Environmental virtues (2): other-regarding virtues and nature -- 6 Conclusion: the Viability of a Buddhist Environmental Ethic -- Answering the sceptics -- Parsimony and polarity -- Bibliography -- Index
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