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This document discusses differences between eastern and western ethics. It notes that eastern ethics focuses more on transcending concepts of good and evil, seeing them as relative rather than absolute. Eastern traditions are also more closely tied to religion. Western ethics separated more from religion and focuses on moral absolutism, with good and evil seen as distinct. While there are some similarities between traditions like Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics, the document notes the locus of ethics differs, with western traditions emphasizing more individualism and eastern traditions focusing more on social harmony.

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Module 5

This document discusses differences between eastern and western ethics. It notes that eastern ethics focuses more on transcending concepts of good and evil, seeing them as relative rather than absolute. Eastern traditions are also more closely tied to religion. Western ethics separated more from religion and focuses on moral absolutism, with good and evil seen as distinct. While there are some similarities between traditions like Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics, the document notes the locus of ethics differs, with western traditions emphasizing more individualism and eastern traditions focusing more on social harmony.

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Thought Paper No.

Perhaps the least complex approaches to investigate the many, numerous hypotheses

of human morals or good standards are as per the pieces of the world they came from. As a

rule, European societies attribute toward the Western hypotheses of morals. Then again,

societies of Asia tend more towards what we call Eastern way of thinking. Eastern ways of

thinking may come to a similar moral end results as Western ones yet they will in general take

various ways arriving. All things considered, there are various Eastern methods of reasoning

too, so how about we restricted them down somewhat further. Our most persuasive Eastern

speculations of morals will in general be engaged around two societies, both totally different and

both incredibly, old.

This paper seeks to differentiate east and west ethics. In Eastern methods of reasoning

extreme the truth is past good acceptable furthermore, evil. This Oriental transcendentalism has

extraordinary moral outcomes. In this way of thinking, you don't take the distinction among great

and evil with total earnestness, simply relative earnestness. In the West, extreme the truth, is

limitlessly acceptable and not detestable. God doesn't have a clouded side. The importance of

life is Him, or resembling Him, or give up to His will, and so forth So profound quality is taken

with extreme reality, since moral goodness is not family member, as organic goodness or actual

goodness. Regardless of whether in pre-Christian old style, Christian, or post-Christian

humanist structure, the West inclines toward moral absolutism. Indeed on the off chance that

everything in the actual universe is relative, ethical quality isn't comparative with indecency as

Yin to Yang. In the West, reasoning when all is said in done, and morals specifically, separated

itself from religion, to a great extent because of Socrates and his replacements. In the East

there was no Socrates thus morals in specific, and reasoning when all is said in done, isn't

viewed as a simply discerning science however is all the more intently attached to religion. In

contemplating world religions, there will definitely be a distinction in the sorts of religions that are
in various regions. Ordinarily, the world is isolated into two regions when talking about religions;

those that are Eastern and those that are Western. There are not many similitudes between

talking about Western and Eastern religions other than there are a few people who live in the

western world and have Eastern religions, and there are the individuals who live in the East and

have faith in Western religions. Both the Eastern and Western world religions were enormously

affected from the beginning of time, and there were numerous wars battled about strict impacts

across the world.

Eastern religions are regularly depicted by those religions that are rehearsed in zones

like China, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Eastern religions are additionally regularly

polytheistic, while commonly Western religions are monotheistic in that just a single God is

adored. Western religions are those religions that are polished in most different nations outside

of the East. Hinduism is the belief in a supreme being that watches over an endless cycle of

creation, preservation, and dissolution. Reincarnation, a major tenet of Hinduism, is when the

soul, which is seen as eternal and part of a spiritual realm, returns to the physical realm in a

new body. A soul will complete this cycle many times, learning new things each time and

working through its karma. This cycle of reincarnation is called samsara. Incarnation, central

Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a

man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. Christ

was truly God and truly man.

In conclusion, given the different cultural and historical settings of ancient Greece and

China, you may be surprised to find similarities between the Aristotelian and Confucian systems

of virtue ethics. Yet not only are there similarities but the two systems share the theme of

control. There are differences, the most remarkable being the locus of ethics, despite these

comparisons between the two traditions. Western Ethics is progressed into modern Kantian’s

Universal Rule or Bentham’s Utilitarianism generally focused on individualism. Eastern Ethics


varies quite a bit. I would say Confucianism is a lot different from Taoism or Buddhism. But

generally, it focuses on harmony with society and the universe.

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