Description: Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Contrasts and Ideals Many "Easts," Many "Wests" The Critical Path 1. The "Do Nothing" and the Pilgrim: Two Approaches to Ethics On the Nature of the Will The Transformation of the Everyday World The Will in Eastern Thought Wu-Wei and Non-doing Evil On Human-Heartedness A Radical Interdependence The Morality of Enlightenment Conclusion 2. The Significance of Shintoism for Japanese Ethics The Importance of the Shinto Perspective Shrine Shinto (Common Shinto) In the Beginning Kami and Evil Attitudes, Virtues, and Rituals The Connection to Ancestors The Way to the Future Reflective Epilogue The Ecological Dimension Ethics and Nature Shinto and Zen 3. Confucianism and Japanese Ethics The Confucian Self Original Human Goodness The Importance of Sincerity Self as Field Spontaneity Confucianism in Japan 4. Buddhism and Japanese Ethics Introduction The Beginnings Buddhism and Morality The Ground of Morality What Happened to Nirvana? Ethics and Enlightenment The Bodhisattva The Path of the Bodhisattva 5. Zen Buddhism and Ethics Zen and Enlightenment Evil and Zen The Cat Again Seeing into One's Own Nature Why Should One Be Moral? Cats! Cats! Cats! Zen and Nature And If the Cat Were Not a Cat? 6. The Fundamentals: Modern Japanese Ethics Ningen The One and the Many Ethics Toward Nothingness Sincerity Ethics as Contextual The Importance of the Family The Complexity of Climate 7. An Ethics of Transformation: Nishida, Yuasa, and Dogen The Need to Differentiate Why the One Differentiates The Nature of Good Conduct From Self to No-self On Self-cultivation Dogen Dogen on the "Now" Conclusion: The Mutuality of Learning in a Global Village Social Ethics Final Reflections Ecological Ethics, East and West Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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