'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--