The papers contained in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Ethics and the Challenge of Russian and Western Perspectives held at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, May 25-26, 2012. The conference was sponsored by the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Biblical-Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate, with the generous support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The Philosophy Department and Center for Ethics and Culture of the University of Notre Dame served as gracious and genial hosts. It was the eighth in a series of joint Anglo- American/Russian conferences on various topics organized by the Society of Christian Philosophers. The proceedings are scheduled for publication in Russian in Philosophy of An Almanac 2012- 2013, ed. Vladimir K. Shokhin ( Vostochnaya Literatura Publishers).