Bibliography: BIB27662

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB27662
reference type	Book Section
title	The Bahá'í Writings : A Meta-ethical Excursion
book title	Lights of 'Irfán : Studies in the Principal Bahá'í Beliefs : Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars : Book Fifteen
author	Kluge, Ian
authority control	Ian Kluge
year	2014
publisher	'Asr-i-Jadíd Publisher
place published	Darmstadt, Germany
abstract	The Bahá'í Writings promise an ethical renewal for all the peoples and cultures in the world and ethical guidance for the future personal, social and spiritual evolution of humankind. This paper pursues a philosophical examination of the Writings' ethical teachings, how they relate to the major ethical systems proposed in the past, and how they deal with some of the difficulties inherent in past systems. Among the topics discussed are virtue ethics, utilitarianism, existentialism, Kant's theories, natural law theory, ethical subjectivism and objectivism, relativism, intuitionism, Nietzschean ethics, and self-realization ethics. Special attention will be paid to Udo Schaefer's magisterial two volume "Bahá'í Ethics in Light of Scripture" which was the first study to undertake a systematic review of Bahá'í ethical teachings.
language	English
keywords	ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY
pages	93–198
section	7.