Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-213) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I STRUCTURE -- 1. Methodological Introduction -- 2. The Broad Structure of Buddhist Ethics -- 3. Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology -- 4. Agency and Moral Psychology -- 5. Narrative in Buddhist Ethics -- pt. II DOCTRINE -- 6. The Four Noble Truths -- 7. Path as a Structure for Buddhist Ethics -- 8. The Six Perfections in the Mahayana -- 9. The Brahmaviharas and the Achievement of Nonegocentricity -- 10. The Importance of Vow -- pt. III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- 11. Naturalism -- 12. Engaged Buddhism -- 13. Coda: What Buddhist Ethics Brings to the Table.

"'Buddhist Ethics' presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought. It is not a defense of Buddhist approaches to ethics as opposed to any other, nor is it a critique of the Western tradition. Garfield presents a broad overview of a range of Buddhist approaches to the question of moral philosophy. He argues that while there are important points of contact with these Western frameworks, Buddhist ethics is distinctive, and is a kind of moral phenomenology that is concerned with the ways in which we experience ourselves as agents and others as moral fellows"-- Provided by publisher.