Ethical Decision-making in Eastern Religions
Traditions such as Confucianism, animism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, have had a similar impact on their cultures. However, they all tend to emphasize different aspects of decisions than does Western academic ethics, which is said to suffer badly from a "God's Eye view" problem. By contrast, these non-Western traditions have emphasized the following:
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